---
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: "HB 1488"
citation: "Indiana HB 1488 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Dealers and Manufacturers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holli Sullivan", "John Ruckelshaus", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9faed2f1-7ece-462b-935b-8d99a0d718f1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1488"
source_hash: "28970d9ae41a3cdfd25fd529bb016814340935ffb8f80812d4da5ae5544ebcdd"
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 HB 1488 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1488/versions/hb1488.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1488/versions/hb1488.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1488/versions/hb1488.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1488/versions/hb1488.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1488 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1488 - Sullivan - 3rd Reading — **87–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Holli Sullivan — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — coauthor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Coauthored by Representatives Siegrist and Austin
- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Sullivan
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 139: yeas 87, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 467: yeas 89, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-20** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 179
- **2017-04-25** 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/9faed2f1-7ece-462b-935b-8d99a0d718f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).