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type: "Bill"
title: "Learner's permits."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "Indiana SB 236 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Labor Laws and Safety Issues", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Drivers' Licenses", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "James Buck", "Jim Pressel", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c43514-62e3-4bee-be6c-b18e440ea5df"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/236"
source_hash: "3426af2a922acdc7bf4e2a761b5d9beb6fdb0c00e057ecaaacb697d5eeb7c5af"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0236/versions/SB0236.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0236/versions/SB0236.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0236/versions/SB0236.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0236/versions/SB0236.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 236 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **920** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73c43514-62e3-4bee-be6c-b18e440ea5df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).