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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Town party conventions."
+description: "Specifies the manner of nomination applicable to a candidate for town office in a small town, based on the year in which the election occurs. Modifies the deadlines for: (1) filing a copy of an ordinance establishing a primary election for nomination of major political party candidates; and (2) holding a town convention."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 29"
+citation: "Indiana SB 29 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts)", "ELECTIONS; Political Parties"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Smaltz", "Blake Doriot", "Mike Gaskill", "Stacey Donato"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ad10d70-c2f4-47fb-9238-d457d6a47e3b"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0029"
+source_hash: "cfeeac7e585655f21e9626554ea7cd88518349de2a6a804dd8511113246244ea"
+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 29 (2024) — Town party conventions.
+
+Specifies the manner of nomination applicable to a candidate for town office in a small town, based on the year in which the election occurs. Modifies the deadlines for: (1) filing a copy of an ordinance establishing a primary election for nomination of major political party candidates; and (2) holding a town convention.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0029/SB0029.03.ENGS.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0029/SB0029.05.ENRH.pdf)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0029/SB0029.01.INTR.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0029/SB0029.04.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 29 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 29 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Donato
+- **2024-01-09** Senator Gaskill added as second author
+- **2024-01-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-23** Amendment #5 (Donato) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-01-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-25** Cosponsor: Representative Wesco
+- **2024-01-25** Senator Doriot added as third author
+- **2024-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
+- **2024-01-26** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 164: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2024-03-12** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-12** Public Law 74 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ad10d70-c2f4-47fb-9238-d457d6a47e3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+