---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 165"
citation: "Indiana SB 165 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS", "ELECTIONS", "State and Local Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeffrey Thompson", "John Crane"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/904a9f4d-dbaa-44f1-9c22-30eeff288b38"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/165"
source_hash: "598a527fa8912f9b31d097e9d78ca45e3524e0383d3cc66c058254083de28235"
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 165 (2018) — 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/2018/bills/sb0165/versions/sb0165.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0165/versions/sb0165.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0165/versions/sb0165.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0165/versions/sb0165.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 165 - Crane - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · legislature
- SB 165 - Thompson - 3rd Reading — **92–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — primary (person)
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Scott Pelath — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Crane
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2018-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 82: yeas 47, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Thompson
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Pelath added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 92, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 10

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/904a9f4d-dbaa-44f1-9c22-30eeff288b38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).