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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School board candidate filing deadline."
+description: "Changes the time frame that a candidate for a school board office is required to file the candidate's petition of nomination. Modifies deadlines concerning a statement questioning the validity of a petition of nomination or contesting the denial of certification."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 177"
+citation: "Indiana SB 177 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "ELECTIONS", "State and Local Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Officers and Employees (other than teachers)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "James Buck", "Timothy Wesco"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-09"
+last_action: "2023-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7223d0eb-8152-4fd3-8700-7cb419642a77"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/177"
+source_hash: "5db9696c035cd97b29adbcb4443723fde72367798906a9bad0188c2683964dd8"
+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 177 (2023) — School board candidate filing deadline.
+
+Changes the time frame that a candidate for a school board office is required to file the candidate's petition of nomination. Modifies deadlines concerning a statement questioning the validity of a petition of nomination or contesting the denial of certification.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.03.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.05.ENRH)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.01.INTR)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.04.COMH)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 177 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- James Buck — primary (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
+- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
+- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Senator Buck added as second author
+- **2023-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-02** Amendment #4 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
+- **2023-02-07** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-27** Representative Prescott added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 313: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 320: yeas 48, nays 0
+- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-20** Public Law 34 `became-law`
+- **2023-04-20** 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/7223d0eb-8152-4fd3-8700-7cb419642a77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+