---
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: "SB 130"
citation: "Indiana SB 130 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "License Plates", "Registrations", "and Titles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Jack Sandlin", "Mark Messmer", "Wes Culver"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9899b556-e217-4255-839a-2be5a8a2eaf7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/130"
source_hash: "ab79c9182f12732839a37cb1947e328174de83ea2c6e8b611c407673dc03c2f5"
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 130 (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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0130/versions/sb0130.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0130/versions/sb0130.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0130/versions/sb0130.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0130/versions/sb0130.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 130 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 130 - Culver - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Wes Culver — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Braun — 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 `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Senator Sandlin added as second author
- **2017-01-23** Senator Zay added as third author
- **2017-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 23: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Culver
- **2017-01-24** Cosponsor: Representative Braun
- **2017-01-26** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2017-01-27** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 252: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-15** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 3
- **2017-03-29** 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/9899b556-e217-4255-839a-2be5a8a2eaf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).