---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle equipment requirements."
description: "Adds an exception to certain motor vehicle equipment requirements for vehicle chassis that are a part of a vehicle manufacturer's work in process and are towed for a distance of less than 40 miles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "Indiana SB 13 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TRANSPORTATION; Generally", "TRANSPORTATION; Landcraft"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Doug Miller", "Linda Rogers", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8183299-b811-4885-8966-d838f12f737c"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0013"
source_hash: "17327c6002762b86b59cf8de55c0d0f93813fe4c2f3215996a4dcf3832016b92"
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 13 (2026) — Motor vehicle equipment requirements.

Adds an exception to certain motor vehicle equipment requirements for vehicle chassis that are a part of a vehicle manufacturer's work in process and are towed for a distance of less than 40 miles.

## 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/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0013/SB0013.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0013/SB0013.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0013/SB0013.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0013/SB0013.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 13 - Miller D - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 13 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senators Doriot, Crider, Rogers
- **2025-12-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-05** Senator Rogers removed as third author
- **2026-01-06** House sponsor: Representative Miller D
- **2026-01-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 11: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-06** Senator Crider added as third author
- **2026-01-06** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2026-01-06** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2026-01-06** Senator Glick added as coauthor
- **2026-01-06** Cosponsors: Representatives King, Wesco
- **2026-01-06** Senator Crider removed as second author
- **2026-01-09** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 207: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-10** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-11** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-17** Public Law 2 `became-law`
- **2026-02-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-17** 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/d8183299-b811-4885-8966-d838f12f737c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).