---
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 1592"
citation: "Indiana HB 1592 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Dealers and Manufacturers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "David Niezgodski", "Edmond Soliday", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39179342-fb8c-4792-a466-ab00683e7cf6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1592"
source_hash: "8003bcb376e0eb66fb8aac945d936559620b91d5d90fce229747267c74e2e8eb"
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 1592 (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/hb1592/versions/hb1592.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1592/versions/hb1592.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1592/versions/hb1592.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1592/versions/hb1592.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1592 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **77–20** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1592 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **43–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — cosponsor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
- Vernon Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Coauthored by Representative GiaQuinta
- **2017-01-23** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2017-01-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Representatives Morris and Smith, V. added as coauthors
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-02-06** Representatives Frye and Candelaria Reardon added as coauthors
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 77, nays 20 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsors: Senators Hershman, Crider and Niezgodski
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senator Zay added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 427: yeas 43, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-01** Public Law 260
- **2017-05-01** 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/39179342-fb8c-4792-a466-ab00683e7cf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).