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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1518: Purchase of vehicles by state entities.

Enacted 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 1518 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Purchase of vehicles by state entities. Primary sponsor: Blake Doriot (Republican), Mitch Gore (Democratic). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2025): Signed by the Governor.

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.

Provides with certain exceptions, that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or standard model vehicle; and (2) may not be from a luxury or semi-luxury brand if a nonluxury brand alternative exists that uses the same underlying vehicle platform.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Blake DoriotPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate12
Mitch GorePrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse89
Doug MillerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse48
Jim PresselCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse20
Ben SmaltzCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse52

“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. Signed by the Governor
  2. Public Law 66
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  5. Signed by the Speaker
  6. Signed by the President of the Senate
  7. Returned to the House without amendments
  8. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 48, nays 1
  9. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  10. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  11. First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
  12. Referred to the Senate

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

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