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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Prohibition of ranked choice voting."
+description: "Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 12"
+citation: "Indiana SB 12 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Chris Garten", "Mike Gaskill", "Timothy Wesco"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-12-08"
+last_action: "2026-02-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fdde8cb-927e-446d-94cf-214cc110af78"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0012"
+source_hash: "972b86a7f90c7e43bde6c30951343a6136ee81405035f77639b752f899145617"
+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 12 (2026) — Prohibition of ranked choice voting.
+
+Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting.
+
+## 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/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 12 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **58–30** (pass) · lower
+- SB 12 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **38–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Chris Garten — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
+- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
+- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
+- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
+- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
+- Ethan Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
+- Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
+- James Buck — coauthor (person)
+- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
+- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
+- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
+- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
+- Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
+- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
+- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
+- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
+- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-12-08** Coauthored by Senators Rogers, Byrne
+- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senators Doriot, Garten, Gaskill
+- **2025-12-10** Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-12** Senator Clark added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-13** Senators Holdman, Goode, Glick, Leising added as coauthors
+- **2026-01-13** Senator Young M added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-13** Senators Buck, Raatz, Freeman, Dernulc added as coauthors
+- **2026-01-15** Amendment #1 (Hunley) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2026-01-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-15** Senators Brown L, Johnson T, Koch, Tomes added as coauthors
+- **2026-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 34: yeas 38, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-20** Cosponsors: Representatives Lawson, Bartels
+- **2026-01-20** Senator Alexander added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-20** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
+- **2026-01-22** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `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 259: yeas 58, nays 30 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-24** Public Law 5 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fdde8cb-927e-446d-94cf-214cc110af78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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