---
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 1491"
citation: "Indiana HB 1491 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES generally", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Soliday", "James Merritt", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ec81d9e-d327-4f80-bc0e-9ed98091abde"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1491"
source_hash: "fb2875f3e63ba580ea2b2a2ea5eb2ca69096fb3da8b42843b071d272e4004586"
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 1491 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.06.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.07.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.05.coms)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.04.coms)
7. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1491/versions/hb1491.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1491 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1491 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Braun — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **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`
- **2017-02-14** Representative Sullivan added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #7 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Representative Braun added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Merritt
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 180: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #3 (Niemeyer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Senator Raatz added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 424: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Soliday and Forestal
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Sullivan, Braun, Brown C and Candelaria Reardon
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Merritt and Niezgodski
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Crider and Mrvan
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 531: yeas 49, nays 1
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 550: yeas 98, nays 0
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 256
- **2017-04-28** 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/1ec81d9e-d327-4f80-bc0e-9ed98091abde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).