republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-39.md

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Bill	Specialized driving privileges.	Provides that in certain circumstances a court may stay the suspension of a person's driving privileges and grant specialized driving privileges for a period of time as determined by the court. Provides that the court may set periodic hearings to review the grant of specialized driving privileges. Provides that, if a probable cause affidavit must be sent by a judicial officer to the bureau of motor vehicles, the probable cause affidavit must be sent at the conclusion of the initial hearing.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 39	Indiana SB 39 (2020)	bill	MOTOR VEHICLES Drivers' Licenses	enacted	Aaron Freeman James Merritt John Young Michael Young	4	23	2	2020-01-06	2020-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/f873b2c9-afa5-44d0-a422-e18b869df73f	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/39	ac1baaee8333a2041409c8507d7fb1ea1cc8fd2b439a413a2b561d6dc3707bd3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 39 (2020) — Specialized driving privileges.

Provides that in certain circumstances a court may stay the suspension of a person's driving privileges and grant specialized driving privileges for a period of time as determined by the court. Provides that the court may set periodic hearings to review the grant of specialized driving privileges. Provides that, if a probable cause affidavit must be sent by a judicial officer to the bureau of motor vehicles, the probable cause affidavit must be sent at the conclusion of the initial hearing.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 39 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 39 - Young J - 3rd Reading — 93–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• John Young — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Freeman
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-09 Senator Young M added as second author
• 2020-01-13 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-13 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-01-14 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 14: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-14 House sponsor: Representative Young J
• 2020-01-14 Senator Merritt added as third author
• 2020-01-15 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 185: yeas 93, nays 2 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-19 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-02-24 Senators Bohacek and Taylor G added as coauthors
• 2020-03-03 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-04 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 325: yeas 48, nays 1 amendment-failure
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-14 Public Law 29
• 2020-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f873b2c9-afa5-44d0-a422-e18b869df73f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).