---
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 347"
citation: "Indiana SB 347 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "License Plates", "Registrations", "and Titles", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "Mike Speedy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f209da6a-6d0a-4ce9-9e2d-22cf413f4dac"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/347"
source_hash: "57097224c8da8f4afb7f4389409b9787192941955ee0d785f585c719e3d63e74"
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 347 (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/sb0347/versions/sb0347.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 347 - Speedy - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 347 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **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** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Sandlin added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 204: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Speedy
- **2017-02-28** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Representative Morris added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 309: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** 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 64
- **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/f209da6a-6d0a-4ce9-9e2d-22cf413f4dac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).