SB 179 Indiana 2026 session
Indiana department of transportation.
Allows the Indiana department of transportation (department) to assume the responsibilities and duties of the United States Department of Transportation with respect to certain federal environmental laws. Provides that the department waives its civil immunity and consents to the jurisdiction of the federal courts for responsibilities and duties assumed under certain federal environmental laws. Amends language regarding a local unit's eligibility for: (1) a grant from the local road and bridge matching grant fund (fund); and (2) a distribution from the fund based on the local unit's share of total lane mileage. Provides limitations for an overweight truck permit that is issued for a single trip. Provides for the use of the Indiana Plane Coordinate System as a means to describe real property. Provides that the department may give preference in awarding grants from the fund to local units that have adopted an enhanced asset management plan. Provides that a county may impose a vehicle excise tax or wheel tax on a vehicle that is registered in the county and not registered in a municipality in the county where a vehicle excise tax or wheel tax went into effect after December 31, 2026. Amends certain requirements for township capital improvement plans.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Enacted — last recorded action March 12, 2026
Public Law 147
Recorded votes
Passage likelihood
Not enough recorded signal to estimate this bill's chances.
State-level impact
State-level impact data is not available for this bill. The source text does not contain a per-state funding formula or scored breakdown, so no figures are shown.
Official actions
- Public Law 147
- Signed by the Governor
- Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Signed by the Speaker
- Signed by the President of the Senate
- Senator Qaddoura added as conferee
- Senator Ford J.D. removed as conferee
- Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 428: yeas 94, nays 0
- Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 321: yeas 45, nays 5
- CCR # 1 filed in the House
- CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- Senate conferees appointed: Crider, Ford J.D.
- Senate dissented from House amendments
- Motion to dissent filed
- House conferees appointed: Pressel, Harris
- Senate advisors appointed: Doriot, Spencer, Holdman
- House advisors appointed: Lawson, Haggard, Patterson, Hamilton, Dant Chesser
- Returned to the Senate with amendments
- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 345: yeas 72, nays 23
- Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
- Amendment #1 (Pressel) prevailed; voice vote
- Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
- First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation
- Referred to the House
- Senator Doriot added as second author
- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 99: yeas 41, nays 5
- House sponsor: Representative Pressel
- Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
- Senator Holdman added as coauthor
- Amendment #2 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote
- Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
- First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation
- Authored by Senator Crider