---
type: "Bill"
title: "Council on impaired and dangerous driving."
description: "Removes references to the governor's council on impaired and dangerous driving. Transfers duties of the governor's council on impaired and dangerous driving to the Indiana criminal justice institute."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1224"
citation: "Indiana HB 1224 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GOVERNOR", "CRIMINAL JUSTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Merritt", "Michael Crider", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fae25ecd-a1e2-44e0-854f-7f584350317e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1224"
source_hash: "e4a08ffdd7a9455a469c3319c4009b208cb133abca1d0b0a8cd4fe727c4ba1ab"
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 1224 (2020) — Council on impaired and dangerous driving.

Removes references to the governor's council on impaired and dangerous driving. Transfers duties of the governor's council on impaired and dangerous driving to the Indiana criminal justice institute.

## 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/2020/bills/HB1224/versions/HB1224.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1224/versions/HB1224.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1224/versions/HB1224.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1224/versions/HB1224.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1224 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1224 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** Authored by Representative McNamara
- **2020-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-18** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** Senator Merritt added as second sponsor
- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 227: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-25** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 23

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fae25ecd-a1e2-44e0-854f-7f584350317e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).