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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 417"
+citation: "Indiana SB 417 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Conduct of Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Liz Brown", "Milo Smith"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f74fdc7-92d5-422f-bb50-1bf0e7c26241"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/417"
+source_hash: "08176ad888897fdd5ff8f2f4d36048db0e848e3f700b17216028716e54707bdf"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 417 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 417 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 417 - Smith, M. - 3rd Reading — **93–3** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Walker — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Milo Smith — primary (person)
+- Kathy Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Walker
+- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Brown L added as second author
+- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Smith M
+- **2017-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Burton
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-16** Representative Richardson added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Amendment #1 (Hatfield) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 93, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 71
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f74fdc7-92d5-422f-bb50-1bf0e7c26241`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+