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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Purchase of vehicles by state entities."
+description: "Provides with certain exceptions, that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or standard model vehicle; and (2) may not be from a luxury or semi-luxury brand if a nonluxury brand alternative exists that uses the same underlying vehicle platform."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1518"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1518 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["STATE GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Mitch Gore"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/081b2f70-dabe-486f-ba75-9254ca6ef0a3"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1518"
+source_hash: "927e9c7d6361f2b8776e6f15d4837ee5efb73d09297663ba007a725ae490ea6d"
+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 1518 (2025) — Purchase of vehicles by state entities.
+
+Provides with certain exceptions, that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or standard model vehicle; and (2) may not be from a luxury or semi-luxury brand if a nonluxury brand alternative exists that uses the same underlying vehicle platform.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.03.ENGH.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.05.ENRS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.04.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1518 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1518 - Gore - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Mitch Gore — primary (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
+- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
+- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Gore
+- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Representative Pressel added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-27** Representative Smaltz added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-28** Representative Miller D added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Gore) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 185: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsor: Senator Doriot
+- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** Public Law 66 `became-law`
+- **2025-04-10** 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/081b2f70-dabe-486f-ba75-9254ca6ef0a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+