---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1447"
citation: "Indiana HB 1447 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TRANSPORTATION generally", "AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Erin Houchin", "Michael Crider", "William Friend"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fafb3ef-64df-4dfb-b659-fa01ddd84ba9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1447"
source_hash: "2008617a21488c64423ebabdb39c7721d8264a17cc4c4cd48c2952aafb85fe1c"
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 1447 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1447/versions/hb1447.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1447/versions/hb1447.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1447/versions/hb1447.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1447/versions/hb1447.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1447 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1447 - Friend - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- William Friend — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Braun — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
- Robert Cherry — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** Coauthored by Representative Cherry
- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Friend
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Representative Frye added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Representative Braun added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Houchin, Crider and Doriot
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Senator Leising added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 313: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 437: yeas 95, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 154
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fafb3ef-64df-4dfb-b659-fa01ddd84ba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).