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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Conduct of primary elections."
+description: "Provides that two or more candidates of a political party may sign a written statement indicating their desire to name a watcher to be present at a county primary election. (Current law requires that 26% or more of all candidates of a political party must sign a written statement to indicate a desire to name a watcher.) Allows a county chairman of a political party to appoint a watcher to each precinct in which the political party has a candidate on the ballot if two or more candidates do not sign a written statement to request a watcher."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 199"
+citation: "Indiana SB 199 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts)", "ELECTIONS; Political Parties", "ELECTIONS; Primary Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Linda Rogers", "Mike Gaskill", "Timothy Wesco"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-04-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfd3925a-d34a-4b11-a373-7641b7252ed6"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0199"
+source_hash: "1b71208542a4ac8f23e6e7f9bb749c66ae7f1b40a4198886f336368c2d619c05"
+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 199 (2025) — Conduct of primary elections.
+
+Provides that two or more candidates of a political party may sign a written statement indicating their desire to name a watcher to be present at a county primary election. (Current law requires that 26% or more of all candidates of a political party must sign a written statement to indicate a desire to name a watcher.) Allows a county chairman of a political party to appoint a watcher to each precinct in which the political party has a candidate on the ballot if two or more candidates do not sign a written statement to request a watcher.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0199/SB0199.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0199/SB0199.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0199/SB0199.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0199/SB0199.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 199 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 199 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
+- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Gaskill
+- **2025-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-21** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
+- **2025-01-21** Cosponsor: Representative King
+- **2025-01-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 10: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-22** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2025-01-21** Senator Rogers added as second author
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-01** Public Law 11 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfd3925a-d34a-4b11-a373-7641b7252ed6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+