Indiana 2024 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate 22 R cosponsors

SB 52 — Prohibition on use of dedicated lanes.

Last action — Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
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    Passed Senate
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    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Prohibits, until July 1, 2025, a consolidated city from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule, policy, or other requirement concerning a public transportation project, including the blue line, that seeks to: (1) convert; (2) restrict; or (3) otherwise establish; a vehicular traffic lane for use as a dedicated lane. Specifies exclusions from the scope of the bill's temporary prohibition. Requires the driver of a passenger bus operating in a consolidated city that travels on a dedicated lane in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic to sound a horn or bell when approaching an intersection to alert pedestrians.

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Action History

  1. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  2. Representatives Behning and Speedy added as cosponsors

  3. First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation

  4. Referred to the House

  5. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 35, nays 14

  6. Senator Young M added as second author

  7. Senator Young M removed as coauthor

  8. Senator Buck added as coauthor

  9. House sponsor: Representative McGuire

  10. Amendment #7 (Hunley) failed; voice vote

  11. Amendment #6 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote

  12. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  13. Amendment #3 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 30: yeas 9, nays 38

  14. Amendment #4 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 29: yeas 9, nays 38

  15. Senators Raatz, Zay, Busch, Byrne added as coauthors

  16. Senators Doriot, Gaskill, Buchanan, Johnson T added as coauthors

  17. Senators Maxwell, Dernulc, Bohacek, Niemeyer added as coauthors

  18. Senator Goode G added as coauthor

  19. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  20. Senator Doriot removed as second author

  21. Senators Young M, Glick, Leising added as coauthors

  22. Senators Messmer, Donato, Koch, Tomes added as coauthors

  23. Senator Doriot added as second author

  24. First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations

  25. Authored by Senator Freeman

Sponsors

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3 sponsors · 22 co-sponsors · 125 not signed on

Sponsors (3)

Co-sponsors (22)

Not signed on (125)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 52 do?
Prohibits, until July 1, 2025, a consolidated city from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, rule, policy, or other requirement concerning a public transportation project, including the blue line, that seeks to: (1) convert; (2) restrict; or (3) otherwise establish; a vehicular traffic lane for use as a dedicated lane. Specifies exclusions from the scope of the bill's temporary prohibition. Requires the driver of a passenger bus operating in a consolidated city that travels on a dedicated lane in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic to sound a horn or bell when approaching an intersection to alert pedestrians.
Who sponsors SB 52?
SB 52 is sponsored by Mike Speedy, Robert Behning (Republican), Julie McGuire (Republican), James Buck (Republican), Gary Byrne (Republican), Justin Busch (Republican), Andy Zay, Jeff Raatz (Republican), Rick Niemeyer (Republican), Mike Bohacek (Republican), Dan Dernulc (Republican), Randy Maxwell (Republican), Greg Goode (Republican), Tyler Johnson (Republican), Brian Buchanan (Republican), Mike Gaskill (Republican), Blake Doriot (Republican), Jean Leising (Republican), Susan Glick (Republican), James Tomes (Republican), Eric Koch (Republican), Stacey Donato (Republican), Mark Messmer, Michael Young (Republican), and Aaron Freeman (Republican).
What is the current status of SB 52?
This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 52?
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