---
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 9"
citation: "Indiana SB 9 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "Voters and Voting; Registration", "MENTAL HEALTH", "Mentally Ill or Impaired Persons", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Greg Walker", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ba24fa5-a323-4658-8eda-2e2e127e53aa"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/9"
source_hash: "d1c87443251a0d7dbc2bdc0344f3f84061cc08ba82fb5c166a29cae49b43b808"
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 9 (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/sb0009/versions/sb0009.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0009/versions/sb0009.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0009/versions/sb0009.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0009/versions/sb0009.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 9 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 9 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Goodin — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-10** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2018-01-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-16** House sponsor: Representative Clere
- **2018-01-16** Cosponsor: Representative DeVon
- **2018-01-18** Senator Walker added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Representative Ellington added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 189: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Representative Goodin added as cosponsor
- **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 3

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ba24fa5-a323-4658-8eda-2e2e127e53aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).