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type: "Bill"
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title: "Voter registration."
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description: "Requires the bureau of motor vehicles commission to notify the election division if the voter registration form being transmitted is for an applicant who applied for or was issued a temporary credential."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 137"
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citation: "Indiana SB 137 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["AGENCIES; Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)", "AGENCIES; Election Division and Election Commission", "ELECTIONS; Voter Registration", "TRANSPORTATION; Licenses", "Plates", "Registration", "and Titles"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lorissa Sweet", "Mike Bohacek", "Mike Gaskill"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-01-08"
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last_action: "2025-04-16"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a86f904-2ccd-43f3-9217-4d18ab3b2959"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0137"
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source_hash: "740235932f404bb8d2c30ca93c72426cdf7c01d70eb8e786b153f590f5ec8228"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 137 (2025) — Voter registration.
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Requires the bureau of motor vehicles commission to notify the election division if the voter registration form being transmitted is for an applicant who applied for or was issued a temporary credential.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.04.ENRH.pdf)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.01.INTR.pdf)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.02.COMS.pdf)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0137/SB0137.03.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 137 - Bohacek - 2nd Reading — **10–36** (fail) · upper
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- SB 137 - Sweet - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 137 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Lorissa Sweet — primary (person)
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- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
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- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
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- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Bohacek
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- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Hunley) failed; Roll Call 120: yeas 10, nays 36 `amendment-failure, failure`
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- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-17** Senator Gaskill added as second author
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- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-17** House sponsor: Representative Sweet
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- **2025-02-17** Cosponsors: Representatives Pressel and Wesco
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- **2025-02-17** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-18** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-04-02** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 343: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-04-16** Public Law 72 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a86f904-2ccd-43f3-9217-4d18ab3b2959`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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