---
type: "Bill"
title: "CDL training regarding human trafficking."
description: "Provides that the bureau of motor vehicles shall require an applicant who is applying for a commercial driver's license for the first time to attest to having watched an instructional video on how to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1196"
citation: "Indiana HB 1196 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Drivers' Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "John Crane", "Michael Crider", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1d5ceb3-4eae-4823-b15c-11d997fb88f4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1196"
source_hash: "0543f418eb6688665f37a406975e33bd539f68bf404897a7e2a8ccd988fd5d28"
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 1196 (2023) — CDL training regarding human trafficking.

Provides that the bureau of motor vehicles shall require an applicant who is applying for a commercial driver's license for the first time to attest to having watched an instructional video on how to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking.

## 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/2023/bills/HB1196/versions/HB1196.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1196/versions/HB1196.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1196/versions/HB1196.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1196/versions/HB1196.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1196 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Cory Criswell — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Authored by Representative McNamara
- **2023-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Pressel and Bartlett
- **2023-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** Representative Criswell C added as coauthor
- **2023-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2023-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 20: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-28** Senator Crane added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-28** Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
- **2023-03-28** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-03** Senator Pol added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-04** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 393: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 128 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1d5ceb3-4eae-4823-b15c-11d997fb88f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).