---
type: "Bill"
title: "License suspension."
description: "Allows the BMV to add an additional compliance period for those seeking material error review regarding certain license suspensions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 19"
citation: "Indiana SB 19 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)", "INSURANCE; Motor Vehicles", "TRANSPORTATION; Licenses", "Plates", "Registration", "and Titles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "James Tomes", "Julie Olthoff", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d92abb77-19fa-4d3d-8b9a-451348fa3a65"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0019"
source_hash: "4f11d3ba732ef616dfbce29ec3f09d6ed898b8c2f3428ea319eefec548ebd23c"
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 19 (2024) — License suspension.

Allows the BMV to add an additional compliance period for those seeking material error review regarding certain license suspensions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0019/SB0019.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0019/SB0019.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0019/SB0019.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0019/SB0019.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 19 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **87–4** (pass) · lower
- SB 19 - Dernulc - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- David Vinzant — coauthor (person)
- Harold Slager — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy O'Brien — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Dernulc
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Senator Tomes added as third author
- **2024-01-09** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
- **2024-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Senator Vinzant added as coauthor
- **2024-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 42: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
- **2024-01-29** Cosponsor: Representative Slager
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Representatives Hamilton and O'Brien added as cosponsors
- **2024-02-19** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 157: yeas 87, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-12** Public Law 72 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d92abb77-19fa-4d3d-8b9a-451348fa3a65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).