Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/in/2021/hb-1039.md

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Military award license plates."
+description: "Provides that the surviving spouse of a Purple Heart recipient may retain the Purple Heart specialty license plate as long as the surviving spouse does not remarry. Specifies that the surviving spouse is not eligible to receive a modified disability registration plate. Establishes the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal specialty license plate."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1039"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1039 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["MILITARY FORCES", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "License Plates", "Registrations", "and Titles", "VETERANS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Chris Garten", "Chris Judy", "Justin Busch"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-04"
+last_action: "2021-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71c94e58-22b8-4777-bff5-d4b52fbc5d2d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1039"
+source_hash: "d5fa97e74f83fcedb6ac0f685bc1d326bac3fe483c2bbd467dde6b0fa401aae6"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana HB 1039 (2021) — Military award license plates.
+
+Provides that the surviving spouse of a Purple Heart recipient may retain the Purple Heart specialty license plate as long as the surviving spouse does not remarry. Specifies that the surviving spouse is not eligible to receive a modified disability registration plate. Establishes the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal specialty license plate.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1039/versions/HB1039.03.ENGH)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1039/versions/HB1039.05.ENRS)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1039/versions/HB1039.02.COMH)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1039/versions/HB1039.04.COMS)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1039/versions/HB1039.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1039 - Judy - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andy Zay — primary (person)
+- Chris Garten — primary (person)
+- Chris Judy — primary (person)
+- Justin Busch — primary (person)
+- David Abbott — coauthor (person)
+- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
+- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Abbott, Frye R, Morris
+- **2021-01-04** Authored by Representative Judy
+- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 58: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-04** Senate sponsors: Senators Zay, Busch, Garten
+- **2021-02-05** Referred to the Senate
+- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-04** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 210: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-09** Returned to the House without amendments
+- **2021-03-11** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-08** Public Law 29
+- **2021-04-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71c94e58-22b8-4777-bff5-d4b52fbc5d2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+