---
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 275"
citation: "Indiana SB 275 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Drivers' Licenses", "MOTOR VEHICLES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jon Ford", "Kevin Mahan", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbc2fb4a-6438-4428-9417-195b0f18f4d7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/275"
source_hash: "624dfa5c95337d47addcf3ce76049054f4c80d1e620ec9fe012981ad157f08b8"
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 275 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0275/versions/sb0275.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0275/versions/sb0275.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0275/versions/sb0275.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0275/versions/sb0275.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0275/versions/sb0275.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 275 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 275 - Mahan - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Kevin Mahan — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2017-01-26** Senators Doriot and Sandlin added as coauthors
- **2017-01-31** Amendment #1 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Amendment #2 (Lanane) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 68: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Mahan
- **2017-02-06** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Representative Lehman added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 335: yeas 89, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 58
- **2017-04-13** 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/cbc2fb4a-6438-4428-9417-195b0f18f4d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).