---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Indiana SB 98 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Traffic Violations and Penalties", "MOTOR VEHICLES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "David Niezgodski", "John Young", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/399cbdd7-8d5f-47f6-93bb-6a38547c8f4b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/98"
source_hash: "c2f5d4b78e02c3f93085d77a9c7d90892d4bbbf72b5b717d021fc84c49a857fc"
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 98 (2018) — 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/2018/bills/sb0098/versions/sb0098.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0098/versions/sb0098.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0098/versions/sb0098.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0098/versions/sb0098.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 98 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 98 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- John Young — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Young M
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 15: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-16** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-01-22** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Senator Niezgodski added as third author
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
- **2018-02-19** Representative Young J added as sponsor
- **2018-02-20** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 213: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 274: yeas 47, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 46

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/399cbdd7-8d5f-47f6-93bb-6a38547c8f4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).