---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle medical information program."
description: "Establishes the yellow dot motor vehicle medical information program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1297"
citation: "Indiana HB 1297 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)", "AGENCIES; Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)", "HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "J.D. Ford", "Scott Alexander", "Sue Errington"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1650509b-1d1b-48ac-87d0-0189677d30db"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1297"
source_hash: "6e9d36a329fc79399a7a60979856c7925406a57046cba3eefd153dd9d9dbec04"
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 1297 (2025) — Motor vehicle medical information program.

Establishes the yellow dot motor vehicle medical information program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1297/HB1297.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1297/HB1297.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1297/HB1297.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1297/HB1297.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1297 - Errington — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1297 - Errington - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1297 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- J.D. Ford — primary (person)
- Scott Alexander — primary (person)
- Sue Errington — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Authored by Representative Errington
- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Representative Karickhoff added as coauthor
- **2025-02-11** Representatives Pressel and Harris added as coauthors
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Doriot, Alexander, Ford J.D.
- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 171: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-17** Amendment #1 (Doriot) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-18** Senators Jackson L and Pol added as cosponsors
- **2025-03-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 249: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-19** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-20** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-24** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 305: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 59 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1650509b-1d1b-48ac-87d0-0189677d30db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).