---
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 457"
citation: "Indiana SB 457 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Drivers' Licenses", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Randall Head", "William Friend"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e1a10aa-1e56-4e49-885e-d8744e3a85fe"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/457"
source_hash: "ef91f96c6fbe9284f4abac04bd9eb1b97526d5a26f3df19f1061aeb056d0527e"
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 457 (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/sb0457/versions/sb0457.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0457/versions/sb0457.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0457/versions/sb0457.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0457/versions/sb0457.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0457/versions/sb0457.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 457 - Friend - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 457 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- William Friend — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Senator Tomes added as second author
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Amendment #1 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 42: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Friend
- **2017-01-31** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Judy added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 382: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Representative Morris added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 455: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 120
- **2017-04-21** 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/4e1a10aa-1e56-4e49-885e-d8744e3a85fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).