---
type: "Bill"
title: "Voter registration."
description: "Requires the bureau of motor vehicles commission to notify the election division if the voter registration form being transmitted is for an applicant who applied for or was issued a temporary credential."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Indiana SB 137 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)", "AGENCIES; Election Division and Election Commission", "ELECTIONS; Voter Registration", "TRANSPORTATION; Licenses", "Plates", "Registration", "and Titles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lorissa Sweet", "Mike Bohacek", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a86f904-2ccd-43f3-9217-4d18ab3b2959"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0137"
source_hash: "740235932f404bb8d2c30ca93c72426cdf7c01d70eb8e786b153f590f5ec8228"
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 137 (2025) — Voter registration.

Requires the bureau of motor vehicles commission to notify the election division if the voter registration form being transmitted is for an applicant who applied for or was issued a temporary credential.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 137 - Bohacek - 2nd Reading — **10–36** (fail) · upper
- SB 137 - Sweet - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 137 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lorissa Sweet — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Bohacek
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Hunley) failed; Roll Call 120: yeas 10, nays 36 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** Senator Gaskill added as second author
- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** House sponsor: Representative Sweet
- **2025-02-17** Cosponsors: Representatives Pressel and Wesco
- **2025-02-17** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2025-02-18** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-02** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 343: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 72 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a86f904-2ccd-43f3-9217-4d18ab3b2959`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).