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type: "Bill"
title: "Driving with suspended driving privileges."
description: "Specifies that the penalty for a operating a motor vehicle while under a lifetime forfeiture of driving privileges is: (1) a Level 6 felony, if the forfeiture occurred before July 1, 2015; and (2) a Level 5 felony, if the forfeiture occurred after June 30, 2015."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1554"
citation: "Indiana HB 1554 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)", "AGENCIES; Department of Corrections (DOC)", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities", "Damages", "and Penalties", "COURTS; Trial Courts", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Motor Vehicle Offenses (Excluding Traffic Violations)", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Sentencing", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; County Sheriffs' Departments", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garrett Bascom", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10abef6d-044d-45ec-8c8a-b8833159616d"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1554"
source_hash: "676e0f668cde67d9be2e0b2b962c9396d1fd00138f17e30a2a92d2a7d9643c95"
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 HB 1554 (2025) — Driving with suspended driving privileges.
Specifies that the penalty for a operating a motor vehicle while under a lifetime forfeiture of driving privileges is: (1) a Level 6 felony, if the forfeiture occurred before July 1, 2015; and (2) a Level 5 felony, if the forfeiture occurred after June 30, 2015.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1554/HB1554.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1554/HB1554.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1554/HB1554.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1554/HB1554.01.INTR.pdf)
## Votes
- HB 1554 - Bascom - 3rd Reading — **880** (pass) · lower
- HB 1554 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **441** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Garrett Bascom — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-21** Coauthored by Representative Zimmerman
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Bascom
- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 91: yeas 88, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 238: yeas 44, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-20** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-03** Public Law 36 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10abef6d-044d-45ec-8c8a-b8833159616d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).