---
type: "Bill"
title: "Specialized driving privileges."
description: "Provides that in certain circumstances a court may stay the suspension of a person's driving privileges and grant specialized driving privileges for a period of time as determined by the court. Provides that the court may set periodic hearings to review the grant of specialized driving privileges. Provides that, if a probable cause affidavit must be sent by a judicial officer to the bureau of motor vehicles, the probable cause affidavit must be sent at the conclusion of the initial hearing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "Indiana SB 39 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Drivers' Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "James Merritt", "John Young", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f873b2c9-afa5-44d0-a422-e18b869df73f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/39"
source_hash: "ac1baaee8333a2041409c8507d7fb1ea1cc8fd2b439a413a2b561d6dc3707bd3"
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 39 (2020) — Specialized driving privileges.

Provides that in certain circumstances a court may stay the suspension of a person's driving privileges and grant specialized driving privileges for a period of time as determined by the court. Provides that the court may set periodic hearings to review the grant of specialized driving privileges. Provides that, if a probable cause affidavit must be sent by a judicial officer to the bureau of motor vehicles, the probable cause affidavit must be sent at the conclusion of the initial hearing.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0039/versions/SB0039.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0039/versions/SB0039.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0039/versions/SB0039.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0039/versions/SB0039.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 39 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 39 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **93–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- John Young — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-09** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2020-01-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 14: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-14** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2020-01-14** Senator Merritt added as third author
- **2020-01-15** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 185: yeas 93, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-19** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-24** Senators Bohacek and Taylor G added as coauthors
- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 325: yeas 48, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-14** Public Law 29
- **2020-03-14** 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/f873b2c9-afa5-44d0-a422-e18b869df73f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).