---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1311"
citation: "Indiana HB 1311 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR CARRIERS", "REVENUE", "DEPARTMENT OF", "GASOLINE AND GASOHOL; FUEL TAXES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Soliday", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88e2505c-cad7-4767-86b7-533973875952"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1311"
source_hash: "64d8ae69b5e4d95047e15398318c30d3ab127f475c9eb88b5771ac419b346ff6"
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 1311 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.

## 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/2018/bills/hb1311/versions/hb1311.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1311/versions/hb1311.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1311/versions/hb1311.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1311/versions/hb1311.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1311 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1311 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Dan Forestal — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Representatives Frye, Sullivan, Forestal added as coauthors
- **2018-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 107: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Merritt
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 300: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 351: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2018-03-13** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 147
- **2018-03-19** 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/88e2505c-cad7-4767-86b7-533973875952`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).