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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1119: Operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1119 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Primary sponsor: Aaron Freeman (Republican), Scott Baldwin (Republican), Wendy McNamara (Republican). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Defines "qualified test". Specifies that a law enforcement officer may not arrest a person solely because the person tested positive on a qualified test. Provides that the results of a qualified test are admissible if certain circumstances are met, and permits a laboratory technician to testify by video unless certain conditions exist.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Aaron FreemanPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate32
Scott BaldwinPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate20
Wendy McNamaraPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse76
Steve BartelsCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Jim PresselCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse20

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
  2. Referred to the Senate
  3. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 204: yeas 84, nays 10
  4. Senate sponsors: Senators Baldwin and Freeman
  5. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  6. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  7. Representative Pressel added as coauthor
  8. Coauthored by Representative Bartels
  9. Authored by Representative McNamara
  10. First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source