republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1491.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1491	Indiana HB 1491 (2017)	bill	MOTOR VEHICLES generally STUDY COMMITTEES	enacted	Edmond Soliday James Merritt Jeff Raatz	7	35	2	2017-01-18	2017-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/1ec81d9e-d327-4f80-bc0e-9ed98091abde	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1491	fb2875f3e63ba580ea2b2a2ea5eb2ca69096fb3da8b42843b071d272e4004586	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1491 (2017) — 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. Engrossed House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
6. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
7. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1491 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1491 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
• Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Braun — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-18 Authored by Representative Soliday
• 2017-01-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-09 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-14 Representative Sullivan added as coauthor
• 2017-02-16 Amendment #7 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-02-16 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-20 Representative Braun added as coauthor
• 2017-02-21 Senate sponsor: Senator Merritt
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 180: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-27 Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-28 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-04 Amendment #3 (Niemeyer) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-04-04 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-05 Senator Raatz added as second sponsor
• 2017-04-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 424: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-06 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-10 Motion to dissent filed
• 2017-04-10 House dissented from Senate amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-11 House conferees appointed: Soliday and Forestal
• 2017-04-11 House advisors appointed: Sullivan, Braun, Brown C and Candelaria Reardon
• 2017-04-11 Senate conferees appointed: Merritt and Niezgodski
• 2017-04-11 Senate advisors appointed: Crider and Mrvan
• 2017-04-21 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2017-04-21 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2017-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 531: yeas 49, nays 1
• 2017-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 550: yeas 98, nays 0
• 2017-04-26 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-27 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-28 Public Law 256
• 2017-04-28 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ec81d9e-d327-4f80-bc0e-9ed98091abde. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).