---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1178"
citation: "Indiana HB 1178 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "Voters and Voting; Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clyde Kersey", "David Niezgodski", "Jon Ford", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f40389c3-26ef-48c7-b25f-928e96af5403"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1178"
source_hash: "e172cfd3a53d53ff46cc42345f373dd870a8b6d91a00398cba38b927fbbc87e5"
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 1178 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1178/versions/hb1178.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1178/versions/hb1178.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1178/versions/hb1178.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1178/versions/hb1178.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1178/versions/hb1178.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1178 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1178 - Kersey - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Clyde Kersey — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- Kathy Richardson — coauthor (person)
- Milo Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Representative Kersey
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Representatives Smith, M., Richardson, Judy added as coauthors
- **2017-02-21** Amendment #1 (Smith M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Becker, Ford and Niezgodski
- **2017-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 337: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 474: yeas 76, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Public Law 84
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f40389c3-26ef-48c7-b25f-928e96af5403`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).