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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Withdrawal of candidates."
+description: "Provides that a candidate may withdraw from being a candidate not later than noon 81 days before the date of a primary election. (Under current law, a candidate wanting to withdraw must do so not later than noon 85 days before the primary election.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1267"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1267 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Crane", "Mark Messmer", "Matt Hostettler"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-14"
+last_action: "2020-03-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65a40273-f3d3-4286-a1d8-ecc8fa2a1bd5"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1267"
+source_hash: "c77abeb5e75a26a42862f1790a88ba6af303e32cc279abcede5def6f23295dee"
+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 1267 (2020) — Withdrawal of candidates.
+
+Provides that a candidate may withdraw from being a candidate not later than noon 81 days before the date of a primary election. (Under current law, a candidate wanting to withdraw must do so not later than noon 85 days before the primary election.)
+
+## 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/HB1267/versions/HB1267.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1267/versions/HB1267.03.COMS)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1267/versions/HB1267.02.COMH)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1267/versions/HB1267.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1267 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1267 - Hostettler - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Crane — primary (person)
+- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
+- Matt Hostettler — primary (person)
+- Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
+- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-14** Authored by Representative Hostettler
+- **2020-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** Representatives Wesco, Borders, Moseley added as coauthors
+- **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 Messmer
+- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 99: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
+- **2020-02-13** 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`
+- **2020-02-20** Senator Crane added as second sponsor
+- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **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 123
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65a40273-f3d3-4286-a1d8-ecc8fa2a1bd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+