---
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 442"
citation: "Indiana SB 442 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "Conduct of Elections", "ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Recounts", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Jon Ford", "Kathy Richardson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/589125fd-bbad-48f5-9385-acfb9fb93339"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/442"
source_hash: "f5af964b70c8a26f5fef93db775553de0835b549f4f639ccb0d8f1abea12d2ca"
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 442 (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 Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0442/versions/sb0442.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0442/versions/sb0442.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0442/versions/sb0442.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0442/versions/sb0442.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0442/versions/sb0442.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 442 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 442 - Richardson - 3rd Reading — **88–7** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Kathy Richardson — primary (person)
- Milo Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Walker
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Amendment #1 (Lanane) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 123: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Richardson
- **2017-02-14** Cosponsors: Representatives Smith, M. and Wesco
- **2017-02-16** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 324: yeas 88, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** 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 74
- **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/589125fd-bbad-48f5-9385-acfb9fb93339`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).