---
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 1492"
citation: "Indiana HB 1492 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INDIANA CODE", "MOTOR VEHICLES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Soliday", "John Ruckelshaus", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfd2e870-26da-4553-88d3-13112f31263c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1492"
source_hash: "1a5d8d6c5ac6f50bfa754e52ca311cbf9a480e927bacce2eb4249223760c7797"
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 1492 (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/hb1492/versions/hb1492.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1492/versions/hb1492.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1492/versions/hb1492.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1492/versions/hb1492.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1492 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1492 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Representative Stemler added as coauthor
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Representatives Pressel and Sullivan added as coauthors
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 78: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 343: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-04** 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 440: yeas 95, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 257
- **2017-04-28** 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/bfd2e870-26da-4553-88d3-13112f31263c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).