---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 382"
citation: "Indiana SB 382 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["VETERANS", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Drivers' Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Buck", "John Ruckelshaus", "Michael Crider", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b640757d-0185-4912-8499-617d93a4270f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/382"
source_hash: "7b6bf9c0b2f09ba76e80065b6b318b3b3077873a9203a8b7e637c92941f93ae2"
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 382 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans.

## 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/sb0382/versions/sb0382.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0382/versions/sb0382.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0382/versions/sb0382.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0382/versions/sb0382.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 382 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · legislature
- SB 382 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Buck — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Speedy — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Crider
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and The Military `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 94: yeas 47, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Frye R
- **2017-02-13** Cosponsor: Representative Cherry
- **2017-02-13** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Buck added as third author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Sandlin added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Speedy added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 352: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** 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 65
- **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/b640757d-0185-4912-8499-617d93a4270f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).