Indiana Senate Bill 127 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Passed on May 17 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-18 - SECTIONS 18 through 29 effective 07/01/2011
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Transfers the responsibilities concerning: (1) commercial driver training schools from the Indiana criminal justice institute; (2) motorcycle operator education and secondary school driver training from the department of education; and (3) truck driver training from the Indiana commission on proprietary education (commission) and the state department of revenue; to the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau). Establishes the driver education advisory board and requires the bureau to adopt rules concerning driver education training, including rules pertaining to commercial driver training schools, certain driver education programs, and driver education instructors. Requires an applicant for an operator's license who is required to complete at least 50 hours of supervised practice driving to submit to the commission a log, under penalty of perjury, of the time driven before receiving the operator's license. Authorizes the bureau to adopt rules concerning service charges for the administration of a skills or written test by certain driver education instructors. Changes the term "road test" for purposes of examination of the ability to operate a motor vehicle to "skills test". Permits an applicant for examination for the issuance of a driver's license to take the required written tests or skills test in any location in Indiana (current law requires the tests to be administered in the county where the license branch in which the application was made is located). Provides that certain rules pertaining to driver education adopted by the Indiana commission on proprietary education, the Indiana criminal justice institute, the department of state revenue, and the state board of education concerning driver education are considered, after December 31, 2011, rules of the bureau. Provides for certain immunities pertaining to governmental entities and public employees for: (1) members of the driver education advisory board; and (2) driver education instructors making reports concerning the fitness of applicants to operate a motor vehicle. Authorizes the bureau to issue a learner's permit to a person at least 15 years of age under certain conditions. Makes corresponding changes.

Driver education.

Sen. James Arnold [D]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Sen. James Merritt [R]
Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. Thomas Wyss [R]

2011-04-29 - House - House - Conference committee report 2 : adopted by the House (Y: 65 N: 31 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-29 - Senate - Senate - Conference committee report 2 : adopted by the Senate (Y: 48 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-15 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 79 N: 10 NV: 3 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2011-04-11 - House - House - Amendment 1 (Tyler), failed (Y: 33 N: 54 NV: 1 Abs: 12) [FAIL]
2011-01-31 - Senate - Senate - Reread third time: passed (Y: 44 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-18		SECTIONS 18 through 29 effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-18		SECTIONS 16 through 17 effective 05/10/2011
2011-05-18		SECTIONS 11 through 15 effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-18		SECTION 10 effective 05/10/2011
2011-05-18		SECTIONS 1 through 9 effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-17		Public Law 145
2011-05-10		Signed by the Governor
2011-05-05		Signed by the President of the Senate
2011-05-05		Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2011-05-05		Signed by the Speaker
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 2 : adopted by the House; Roll Call 720: yeas 65, nays 31
2011-04-29		Rules suspended
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 2 : adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 499: yeas 48, nays 2
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 withdrawn
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 2 : filed in the House
2011-04-28		Conference committee report 1 : filed in the House
2011-04-20		House advisors appointed: Soliday, Speedy and Tyler
2011-04-20		House conferees appointed: Hinkle and Dembowski
2011-04-18		Senate advisors appointed: Tomes, Merritt and Smith
2011-04-18		Senate conferees appointed: Holdman and Arnold
2011-04-18		Senate dissented from House amendments
2011-04-15		Returned to the Senate with amendments
2011-04-15		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 540: yeas 79, nays 10
2011-04-11		Amendment 1 (Tyler), failed; Roll Call 464: yeas 33, nays 54
2011-04-11		Amendment 2 (Hinkle), prevailed; voice vote
2011-04-11		Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-04-07		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-03-28		First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation
2011-01-31		Cosponsor: Rep. Gutwein
2011-01-31		House sponsor: Rep. Hinkle
2011-01-31		Referred to the House
2011-01-31		Reread third time: passed; Roll Call 53: yeas 44, nays 5
2011-01-27		Amendment 1 (Holdman), prevailed;
2011-01-27		Reread second time: amended and ordered engrossed
2011-01-25		Placed back on second reading
2011-01-24		Third reading: call withdrawn
2011-01-20		Senator Charbonneau added as third author
2011-01-20		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-01-18		Senator Arnold added as coauthor
2011-01-18		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-01-12		Senator Wyss added as coauthor
2011-01-12		Senator Tomes added as coauthor
2011-01-05		Senator Merritt added as second author
2011-01-05		First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security, Transportation and Veterans Affairs
2011-01-05		Authored by Senator Holdman

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0127
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0127.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0127.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0127.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0127.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0127.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0127.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0053.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0464.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0540.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0499.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0720.PDF.pdf