republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-236.md

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Bill	Learner's permits.	Provides that, to obtain a learner's permit, an individual who is less than 18 years of age must provide the bureau of motor vehicles with an emergency contact person who is not the holder of the learner's permit to be listed in the Indiana emergency contact data base for the individual who holds the learner's permit.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	SB 236	Indiana SB 236 (2023)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS Labor Laws and Safety Issues MOTOR VEHICLES Bureau of Motor Vehicles License Branches MOTOR VEHICLES Drivers' Licenses PUBLIC SAFETY	enacted	Andy Zay James Buck Jim Pressel Mark Messmer	4	30	1	2023-01-10	2023-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/73c43514-62e3-4bee-be6c-b18e440ea5df	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/236	3426af2a922acdc7bf4e2a761b5d9beb6fdb0c00e057ecaaacb697d5eeb7c5af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 236 (2023) — Learner's permits.

Provides that, to obtain a learner's permit, an individual who is less than 18 years of age must provide the bureau of motor vehicles with an emergency contact person who is not the holder of the learner's permit to be listed in the Indiana emergency contact data base for the individual who holds the learner's permit.

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 236 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andy Zay — primary (person)
• James Buck — primary (person)
• Jim Pressel — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-10 Authored by Senator Zay
• 2023-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-01-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-01-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 10: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-01-23 House sponsor: Representative Pressel
• 2023-01-23 Cosponsor: Representative Lauer
• 2023-01-23 Senator Messmer added as second author
• 2023-01-23 Senator Buck added as third author
• 2023-01-24 Referred to the House referral
• 2023-02-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-03-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-04-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 338: yeas 92, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-04-04 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2023-04-12 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2023-04-13 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2023-04-14 House conferees appointed: Pressel and Harris
• 2023-04-14 House advisors appointed: Lauer, Patterson and Hamilton
• 2023-04-18 Senate conferees appointed: Zay and Hunley
• 2023-04-18 Senate advisors appointed: Ford J.D. and Messmer
• 2023-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2023-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2023-04-25 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 497: yeas 82, nays 0
• 2023-04-25 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 476: yeas 45, nays 0
• 2023-04-26 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-05-01 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-05-04 Public Law 174 became-law
• 2023-05-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/73c43514-62e3-4bee-be6c-b18e440ea5df. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).