---
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: "SB 417"
citation: "Indiana SB 417 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Conduct of Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Liz Brown", "Milo Smith"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f74fdc7-92d5-422f-bb50-1bf0e7c26241"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/417"
source_hash: "08176ad888897fdd5ff8f2f4d36048db0e848e3f700b17216028716e54707bdf"
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 417 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0417/versions/sb0417.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 417 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 417 - Smith, M. - 3rd Reading — **93–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Milo Smith — primary (person)
- Kathy Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Walker
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Smith M
- **2017-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Burton
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Representative Richardson added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Amendment #1 (Hatfield) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 93, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 71
- **2017-04-13** 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/0f74fdc7-92d5-422f-bb50-1bf0e7c26241`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).