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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Early voting."
+description: "Provides that the county election board may adopt a resolution authorizing the circuit court clerk to use the office of the circuit court clerk or establish a satellite office to permit voters to cast absentee ballots for at least four hours on the third Saturday preceding election day."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1479"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1479 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS", "ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Absent Voters"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Jon Ford", "Timothy Wesco"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-14"
+last_action: "2021-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1479"
+source_hash: "6cbb7f0b3b3c580db4a94db011dbf9c8b7192f37bf87974ccf71341485b43ead"
+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 1479 (2021) — Early voting.
+
+Provides that the county election board may adopt a resolution authorizing the circuit court clerk to use the office of the circuit court clerk or establish a satellite office to permit voters to cast absentee ballots for at least four hours on the third Saturday preceding election day.
+
+## 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/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.02.COMH)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.03.COMS)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1479 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Walker — primary (person)
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
+- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
+- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
+- Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)
+- Zach Payne — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representative Payne
+- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Wesco
+- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-04** Amendment #1 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 68: yeas 29, nays 61 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-02-04** Amendment #2 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 69: yeas 26, nays 64 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-02-04** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-08** Representatives Pryor and Pfaff added as coauthors
+- **2021-02-08** Senate sponsors: Senators Ford Jon and Walker G
+- **2021-02-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09** Referred to the Senate
+- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-15** Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
+- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 45, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-03-31** Motion to concur filed
+- **2021-04-05** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 358: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-23** Public Law 118
+- **2021-04-23** 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/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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