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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Constitutional amendment ballot question."
+description: "Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the residency of a city or town court judge."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1019"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1019 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS; Public Questions and Referendums"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Mike Aylesworth"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-12-01"
+last_action: "2026-02-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95161556-24fb-4c2b-a442-697a77030206"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1019"
+source_hash: "6636bcf1c7721d292b6ed83677ce4ba31edfb889895f67112faa4f87c9ed6d83"
+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 1019 (2026) — Constitutional amendment ballot question.
+
+Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the residency of a city or town court judge.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1019 - Aylesworth — **66–25** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1019 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1019 - Aylesworth - 3rd Reading — **92–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Mike Aylesworth — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-12-01** Authored by Representative Aylesworth
+- **2025-12-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-12-05** Reassigned to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
+- **2026-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-12** Appeal the ruling of the chair (Hamilton); ruling of the chair sustained Roll Call 33: yeas 66, nays 25
+- **2026-01-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-12** Amendment #2 (Hamilton) ruled out of order
+- **2026-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
+- **2026-01-14** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2026-01-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 173: yeas 44, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-19** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-24** Public Law 18 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95161556-24fb-4c2b-a442-697a77030206`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+