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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Municipal elections."
+description: "Authorizes the legislative body of a town or of a city (if the city has a population of less than 3,500) to adopt an ordinance to move the election of all elected offices of the municipality to even-numbered years."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1147"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1147 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "ELECTIONS generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Jean Leising", "Philip Boots"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-03-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92327435-5ed5-462c-9874-1906c125d1a0"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1147"
+source_hash: "c595fd8aa65c268abfcbad2487b49862d49725c268f24bcfd43f8d35d7af6869"
+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 HB 1147 (2020) — Municipal elections.
+
+Authorizes the legislative body of a town or of a city (if the city has a population of less than 3,500) to adopt an ordinance to move the election of all elected offices of the municipality to even-numbered years.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.03.COMS)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.02.COMH)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1147 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **42–6** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1147 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **93–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Philip Boots — primary (person)
+- Chris May — coauthor (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — coauthor (person)
+- Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Wesco
+- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Morrison
+- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-09** Representative Pfaff added as coauthor
+- **2020-01-14** Representative May added as coauthor
+- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
+- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 93, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
+- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 42, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-02-24** Senator Leising added as second sponsor
+- **2020-02-25** Returned to the House without amendments
+- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2020-03-30** Public Law 107
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92327435-5ed5-462c-9874-1906c125d1a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+