---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 128"
citation: "Indiana SB 128 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BONDS", "Financial", "HIGHWAYS AND ROADS", "Highway Finance", "HIGHWAYS AND ROADS", "Local Streets and Roads", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PORTS AND PORT COMMISSIONS", "TRANSPORTATION", "Department of", "TRANSPORTATION generally", "BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luke Kenley", "Mark Messmer", "Michael Crider", "Mike Braun"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 48
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34ca7daa-c2f1-4c56-97f4-4e1cc856946e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/128"
source_hash: "ee9786a4ce5d15600663c8f35aa3282158bf91518ec2a757a71cf8dc12edb3ec"
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 SB 128 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.04.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.07.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.08.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.06.comh)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.02.coms)
8. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.03.coms)

## Votes

- SB 128 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · legislature
- SB 128 - Braun - 3rd Reading — **90–7** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Mike Braun — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-01-23** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senator Crider added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Bohacek) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Crider removed as second author
- **2017-02-23** Senator Kenley added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Senator Crider added as third author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 47, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Braun
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsor: Representative Soliday
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Representative Frye added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Braun) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 371: yeas 90, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-17** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-17** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2017-04-17** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-18** House advisors appointed: Slager, Soliday, Pressel, Bauer, Candelaria Reardon, Harris and Moseley
- **2017-04-18** House conferees appointed: Braun and Dvorak
- **2017-04-19** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Melton
- **2017-04-19** Senate advisors appointed: Kenley, Niezgodski and Crider
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Senator Tallian added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 528: yeas 98, nays 1
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 501: yeas 44, nays 6
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 229
- **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/34ca7daa-c2f1-4c56-97f4-4e1cc856946e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).