---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deployment of truck safety technology."
description: "Provides that a motor carrier safety improvement that is deployed, implemented, used by, or required by a motor carrier shall not be considered when evaluating an individual's status as an employee, independent contractor, or jointly employed employee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1301"
citation: "Indiana HB 1301 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR CARRIERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Martin Carbaugh", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15f12703-fa89-40f4-a23f-f82824b9cdf9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1301"
source_hash: "c2b2804f22bffa464048d579edba8ff6d77c92e45b61e4970236fb0cc2634681"
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 1301 (2020) — Deployment of truck safety technology.

Provides that a motor carrier safety improvement that is deployed, implemented, used by, or required by a motor carrier shall not be considered when evaluating an individual's status as an employee, independent contractor, or jointly employed employee.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1301/versions/HB1301.03.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1301/versions/HB1301.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1301/versions/HB1301.04.COMS)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1301/versions/HB1301.02.COMH)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1301/versions/HB1301.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1301 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **87–6** (pass) · lower
- HB 1301 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Authored by Representative Carbaugh
- **2020-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Amendment #1 (Carbaugh) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsors: Senators Crider and Niezgodski
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 103: yeas 87, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-28** Representatives Morris and Pressel added as coauthors
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Senators Doriot and Kruse added as cosponsors
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 247: yeas 45, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-25** Senator Busch added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 47

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15f12703-fa89-40f4-a23f-f82824b9cdf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).