---
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 340"
citation: "Indiana SB 340 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "License Plates", "Registrations", "and Titles", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jack Jordan", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0435e411-d9f4-4677-8810-8ae1c30d9e9c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/340"
source_hash: "9f0d657c956104d32d840dd3a0dc4b633b786eb0b5d7de8ae6a422303ab8bf8b"
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 340 (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/sb0340/versions/sb0340.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 340 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 340 - Jordan - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jack Jordan — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Forestal — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Kruse
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-21** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Crider added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 203: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
- **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`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Jordan added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Representative Smaltz removed as sponsor
- **2017-03-20** Representative Jordan added as sponsor
- **2017-03-20** Representative Jordan removed as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Representative Smaltz added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Representative Forestal added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 290: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** 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 62
- **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/0435e411-d9f4-4677-8810-8ae1c30d9e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).