republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-222.md

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Bill	Automobile dealers.	Amends the remedy procedure to repair a motor vehicle that is subject to a stop sale directive to include new motor vehicles. Requires a purchaser, customer, or transferee of a rebuilt or salvage vehicle to sign a written acknowledgment of receipt of the disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Requires the dealer services division of the secretary of state (secretary) to prescribe the form of the written disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Establishes a required training course that an applicant for a used motor vehicle dealer license must complete in order to obtain a used motor vehicle dealer license. Requires dealers to be able to provide to the secretary dealer records in an electronic format. Provides that a dealer has 10 business days to produce electronic dealer records after an investigating or auditing employee of the secretary requests the records. Requires any item that is not a part of the advertised sale price of a motor vehicle to be a separate line item in the contract for sale or lease. Provides that: (1) the owner, lessor, or operator of a commercial motor vehicle; or (2) a person who leases or rents a commercial motor vehicle to another person; is not civilly liable for a tort claim based on the failure to install optional equipment on a commercial motor vehicle unless certain circumstances exist.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 222	Indiana SB 222 (2024)	bill	FINANCIAL SERVICES; Bonds (Non-Judicial) STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Secretary of State TRANSPORTATION; Dealers and Manufacturers TRANSPORTATION; Landcraft	enacted	Jim Pressel Mark Messmer Michael Crider	4	31	4	2024-01-09	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c774f87c-6aaa-42d7-b534-e10242ba1eac	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0222	9c7f856bbb56f52442ef966af4e69e92538e0af26a45f9c877bb8f5faf441330	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 222 (2024) — Automobile dealers.

Amends the remedy procedure to repair a motor vehicle that is subject to a stop sale directive to include new motor vehicles. Requires a purchaser, customer, or transferee of a rebuilt or salvage vehicle to sign a written acknowledgment of receipt of the disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Requires the dealer services division of the secretary of state (secretary) to prescribe the form of the written disclosure for a rebuilt or salvage vehicle. Establishes a required training course that an applicant for a used motor vehicle dealer license must complete in order to obtain a used motor vehicle dealer license. Requires dealers to be able to provide to the secretary dealer records in an electronic format. Provides that a dealer has 10 business days to produce electronic dealer records after an investigating or auditing employee of the secretary requests the records. Requires any item that is not a part of the advertised sale price of a motor vehicle to be a separate line item in the contract for sale or lease. Provides that: (1) the owner, lessor, or operator of a commercial motor vehicle; or (2) a person who leases or rents a commercial motor vehicle to another person; is not civilly liable for a tort claim based on the failure to install optional equipment on a commercial motor vehicle unless certain circumstances exist.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 222 - Pressel — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 222 - Messmer — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 222 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — 96–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 222 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jim Pressel — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)
• Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Authored by Senator Messmer
• 2024-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2024-01-29 Senator Crider added as second author
• 2024-01-29 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 House sponsor: Representative Pressel
• 2024-01-30 Cosponsors: Representatives Lindauer and Bartels
• 2024-01-31 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Representative Harris added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 264: yeas 96, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Vinzant
• 2024-03-05 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2024-03-05 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2024-03-05 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2024-03-05 Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Crider
• 2024-03-05 House conferees appointed: Pressel and Harris
• 2024-03-05 House advisors appointed: Lindauer, Lauer and Johnson B
• 2024-03-07 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2024-03-07 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 319: yeas 47, nays 0
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-13 Public Law 116 became-law
• 2024-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 337: yeas 96, nays 0

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c774f87c-6aaa-42d7-b534-e10242ba1eac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).