---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning elections."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 222"
citation: "Indiana SB 222 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS generally", "CONSTITUTION OF INDIANA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Greg Walker", "Matt Lehman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/939a20bb-6601-453c-983e-f342bf6e58ef"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/222"
source_hash: "c5d93c6ab99e7dc432e931aa9931e46636999d2a8fefe567a69f7ccc865d6bad"
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 222 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning elections.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.07.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.05.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.02.coms)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.03.coms)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0222/versions/sb0222.06.comh)

## Votes

- SB 222 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **90–4** (pass) · legislature
- SB 222 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **43–6** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Long
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Long removed as author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Hershman added as author
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
- **2017-02-27** Senator Walker added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198: yeas 43, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsor: Representative Brown, T.
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 352: yeas 90, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 209
- **2017-04-27** 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/939a20bb-6601-453c-983e-f342bf6e58ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).