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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School board candidates."
+description: "Specifies that if there is more than one candidate for a school board office within certain designated groups of candidates, the candidates shall appear in a certain order and within the grouping and in alphabetical order according to surname."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 25"
+citation: "Indiana SB 25 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION; Local School Boards", "ELECTIONS; Candidates", "ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts)", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Vehicle Bills and Vehicle Joint Resolutions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gary Byrne", "J.D. Prescott", "Mike Gaskill"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-12-08"
+last_action: "2026-02-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/762338f4-bc63-4fb1-a60e-da33ffa34a3d"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0025"
+source_hash: "1fbb039c4d05d2da4e420f7eb33b10dd586968a71c1a7dd9f2f839a0852dd408"
+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 25 (2026) — School board candidates.
+
+Specifies that if there is more than one candidate for a school board office within certain designated groups of candidates, the candidates shall appear in a certain order and within the grouping and in alphabetical order according to surname.
+
+## 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/SB0025/SB0025.05.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.03.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.04.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 25 - Byrne - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper
+- SB 25 - Prescott - 3rd Reading — **91–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gary Byrne — primary (person)
+- J.D. Prescott — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senator Bray
+- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-22** Senator Byrne added as author
+- **2026-01-22** Senator Gaskill added as second author
+- **2026-01-22** Senator Bray removed as author
+- **2026-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2026-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Prescott
+- **2026-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 134: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 237: yeas 91, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-24** Public Law 7 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/762338f4-bc63-4fb1-a60e-da33ffa34a3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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