---
type: "Bill"
title: "Purchase of vehicles by state entities."
description: "Provides with certain exceptions, that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or standard model vehicle; and (2) may not be from a luxury or semi-luxury brand if a nonluxury brand alternative exists that uses the same underlying vehicle platform."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1518"
citation: "Indiana HB 1518 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Mitch Gore"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/081b2f70-dabe-486f-ba75-9254ca6ef0a3"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1518"
source_hash: "927e9c7d6361f2b8776e6f15d4837ee5efb73d09297663ba007a725ae490ea6d"
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 1518 (2025) — Purchase of vehicles by state entities.

Provides with certain exceptions, that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or standard model vehicle; and (2) may not be from a luxury or semi-luxury brand if a nonluxury brand alternative exists that uses the same underlying vehicle platform.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.03.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.04.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1518/HB1518.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1518 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- HB 1518 - Gore - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Mitch Gore — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Gore
- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Representative Pressel added as coauthor
- **2025-01-27** Representative Smaltz added as coauthor
- **2025-01-28** Representative Miller D added as coauthor
- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Gore) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 185: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsor: Senator Doriot
- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 66 `became-law`
- **2025-04-10** 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/081b2f70-dabe-486f-ba75-9254ca6ef0a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).