--- type: "Bill" title: "Automobile dealers." description: "Amends the remedy procedure to repair a motor vehicle that is subject to a stop sale directive to include new motor vehicles. Requires a purchaser, customer, or transferee of a rebuilt or salvage vehicle to sign a written acknowledgment of receipt of the disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Requires the dealer services division of the secretary of state (secretary) to prescribe the form of the written disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Establishes a required training course that an applicant for a used motor vehicle dealer license must complete in order to obtain a used motor vehicle dealer license. Requires dealers to be able to provide to the secretary dealer records in an electronic format. Provides that a dealer has 10 business days to produce electronic dealer records after an investigating or auditing employee of the secretary requests the records. Requires any item that is not a part of the advertised sale price of a motor vehicle to be a separate line item in the contract for sale or lease. Provides that: (1) the owner, lessor, or operator of a commercial motor vehicle; or (2) a person who leases or rents a commercial motor vehicle to another person; is not civilly liable for a tort claim based on the failure to install optional equipment on a commercial motor vehicle unless certain circumstances exist." jurisdiction: "us/states/in" legislature: "Indiana General Assembly" session: "2024" identifier: "SB 222" citation: "Indiana SB 222 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["FINANCIAL SERVICES; Bonds (Non-Judicial)", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Secretary of State", "TRANSPORTATION; Dealers and Manufacturers", "TRANSPORTATION; Landcraft"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Jim Pressel", "Mark Messmer", "Michael Crider"] version_count: 4 action_count: 31 vote_count: 4 first_action: "2024-01-09" last_action: "2024-03-13" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c774f87c-6aaa-42d7-b534-e10242ba1eac" source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0222" source_hash: "9c7f856bbb56f52442ef966af4e69e92538e0af26a45f9c877bb8f5faf441330" 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 222 (2024) — Automobile dealers. Amends the remedy procedure to repair a motor vehicle that is subject to a stop sale directive to include new motor vehicles. Requires a purchaser, customer, or transferee of a rebuilt or salvage vehicle to sign a written acknowledgment of receipt of the disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Requires the dealer services division of the secretary of state (secretary) to prescribe the form of the written disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Establishes a required training course that an applicant for a used motor vehicle dealer license must complete in order to obtain a used motor vehicle dealer license. Requires dealers to be able to provide to the secretary dealer records in an electronic format. Provides that a dealer has 10 business days to produce electronic dealer records after an investigating or auditing employee of the secretary requests the records. Requires any item that is not a part of the advertised sale price of a motor vehicle to be a separate line item in the contract for sale or lease. Provides that: (1) the owner, lessor, or operator of a commercial motor vehicle; or (2) a person who leases or rents a commercial motor vehicle to another person; is not civilly liable for a tort claim based on the failure to install optional equipment on a commercial motor vehicle unless certain circumstances exist. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.03.ENGS.pdf) 2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.05.ENRH.pdf) 3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.01.INTR.pdf) 4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.04.COMH.pdf) ## Votes - SB 222 - Pressel — **96–0** (pass) · lower - SB 222 - Messmer — **47–0** (pass) · upper - SB 222 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **96–1** (pass) · lower - SB 222 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Jim Pressel — primary (person) - Mark Messmer — primary (person) - Michael Crider — primary (person) - Earl Harris — cosponsor (person) - Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person) - Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-01-09** Authored by Senator Messmer - **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2024-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2024-01-29** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage` - **2024-01-29** Senator Crider added as second author - **2024-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3` - **2024-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Pressel - **2024-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Lindauer and Bartels - **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral` - **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2024-02-22** Representative Harris added as cosponsor - **2024-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2024-02-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 264: yeas 96, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3` - **2024-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Vinzant - **2024-03-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt` - **2024-03-05** Motion to dissent filed `filing` - **2024-03-05** Senate dissented from House amendments - **2024-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Crider - **2024-03-05** House conferees appointed: Pressel and Harris - **2024-03-05** House advisors appointed: Lindauer, Lauer and Johnson B - **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing` - **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing` - **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 319: yeas 47, nays 0 - **2024-03-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage` - **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage` - **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage` - **2024-03-13** Public Law 116 `became-law` - **2024-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature` - **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 337: yeas 96, nays 0 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c774f87c-6aaa-42d7-b534-e10242ba1eac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).