---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 212"
citation: "Indiana SB 212 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Size and Weight Limits", "TRANSPORTATION", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Dave Heine", "Liz Brown", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cca43f27-6a1f-43dd-9777-a7496fb02e85"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/212"
source_hash: "001b126363210097d27b98132c422e22eb90dff356efcd0b8925482e67a8efc1"
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 212 (2018) — 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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0212/versions/sb0212.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0212/versions/sb0212.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0212/versions/sb0212.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0212/versions/sb0212.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 212 - Heine - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 212 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Dave Heine — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Goodin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Niemeyer added as third author
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Heine
- **2018-01-22** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** Representative Lehman added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Representatives Goodin and Wright added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-23** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-02-27** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 266: yeas 48, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 54

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cca43f27-6a1f-43dd-9777-a7496fb02e85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).