---
type: "Bill"
title: "Operating while intoxicated."
description: "Provides a defense to prosecution for a person who operates a vehicle with marijuana or its metabolite in the person's blood under certain conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 201"
citation: "Indiana SB 201 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "MARIJUANA", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Traffic Violations and Penalties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Young", "Karen Tallian", "Michael Young", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-05"
last_action: "2021-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49232b34-46e6-40d3-85a1-48cb664ff17b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/201"
source_hash: "a2596770368a4a40c7e4288d5b6860ddad2618ddaeaac8547de7fc049ac30267"
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 201 (2021) — Operating while intoxicated.

Provides a defense to prosecution for a person who operates a vehicle with marijuana or its metabolite in the person's blood under certain conditions.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0201/versions/SB0201.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0201/versions/SB0201.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0201/versions/SB0201.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0201/versions/SB0201.02.COMS)

## Sponsors

- John Young — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Lucas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05** Authored by Senator Young M
- **2021-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2021-02-11** Senator Tallian added as third author
- **2021-02-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** Cosponsor: Representative Lucas
- **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 181: yeas 29, nays 20 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Representative Ledbetter C added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 87, nays 7 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Representative VanNatter added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-15** Public Law 49

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49232b34-46e6-40d3-85a1-48cb664ff17b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).