---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early voting."
description: "Provides that the county election board may adopt a resolution authorizing the circuit court clerk to use the office of the circuit court clerk or establish a satellite office to permit voters to cast absentee ballots for at least four hours on the third Saturday preceding election day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1479"
citation: "Indiana HB 1479 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS", "ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Absent Voters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Jon Ford", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1479"
source_hash: "6cbb7f0b3b3c580db4a94db011dbf9c8b7192f37bf87974ccf71341485b43ead"
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 HB 1479 (2021) — Early voting.

Provides that the county election board may adopt a resolution authorizing the circuit court clerk to use the office of the circuit court clerk or establish a satellite office to permit voters to cast absentee ballots for at least four hours on the third Saturday preceding election day.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1479 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
- Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)
- Zach Payne — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representative Payne
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Wesco
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04** Amendment #1 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 68: yeas 29, nays 61 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-04** Amendment #2 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 69: yeas 26, nays 64 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-04** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-08** Representatives Pryor and Pfaff added as coauthors
- **2021-02-08** Senate sponsors: Senators Ford Jon and Walker G
- **2021-02-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 45, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-31** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-05** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 358: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-23** Public Law 118
- **2021-04-23** 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/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).