Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | Enforcement of weight limits for overweight loads. | Defines "aggregate". Provides that a penalty for transporting a load in excess of the registered limit of the load for the transporting vehicle does not apply to a vehicle or combination of vehicles that transports aggregate if the weight of the vehicle with load does not exceed the gross weight limit and the axle weight limit by more than 10%. Provides for when the department of state revenue (department) may assess a civil penalty for a vehicle or load that is in excess of the legal weight or dimensional limits. Provides for the penalties the department may charge for a violation. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the task of studying civil penalty assessments and the enforcement of overweight loads as it pertains to the impact on state infrastructure. | us/states/in | Indiana General Assembly | 2023 | HB 1204 | Indiana HB 1204 (2023) |
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6 | 27 | 1 | 2023-01-10 | 2023-05-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/3787c13b-eab2-4fad-a3c0-95cc56bd143b | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1204 | 61eba8db4f940a75d092fc0d639cf9b1f4e941aae74caedc7f53d88b5ba1d6fa | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Indiana HB 1204 (2023) — Enforcement of weight limits for overweight loads.
Defines "aggregate". Provides that a penalty for transporting a load in excess of the registered limit of the load for the transporting vehicle does not apply to a vehicle or combination of vehicles that transports aggregate if the weight of the vehicle with load does not exceed the gross weight limit and the axle weight limit by more than 10%. Provides for when the department of state revenue (department) may assess a civil penalty for a vehicle or load that is in excess of the legal weight or dimensional limits. Provides for the penalties the department may charge for a violation. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the task of studying civil penalty assessments and the enforcement of overweight loads as it pertains to the impact on state infrastructure.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- HB 1204 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — 97–1 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
- Ethan Manning — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-01-10 Authored by Representative Karickhoff
- 2023-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation
reading-1, referral-committee - 2023-01-12 Representatives Pressel and Manning added as coauthors
- 2023-02-07 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2023-02-07 Representative Frye added as coauthor
- 2023-02-09 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2023-02-13 Senate sponsors: Senators Messmer and Crider
- 2023-02-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 104: yeas 97, nays 1
passage, reading-3, reading-3 - 2023-02-14 Referred to the Senate
referral - 2023-02-27 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation
reading-1, referral-committee - 2023-03-13 Senator Garten added as third sponsor
- 2023-04-04 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2023-04-04 Senators Buck and Byrne added as cosponsors
- 2023-04-06 Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote
amendment-passage - 2023-04-06 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2023-04-10 Placed back on second reading
- 2023-04-11 Amendment #2 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote
amendment-passage - 2023-04-11 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2023-04-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 384: yeas 47, nays 0
passage, reading-3, reading-3 - 2023-04-14 Returned to the House with amendments
receipt - 2023-04-18 Motion to concur filed
filing - 2023-04-18 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 443: yeas 89, nays 1
- 2023-04-24 Signed by the Speaker
passage - 2023-04-25 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
passage - 2023-04-26 Signed by the President of the Senate
passage - 2023-05-01 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature - 2023-05-01 Public Law 130
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3787c13b-eab2-4fad-a3c0-95cc56bd143b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).