---
type: "Bill"
title: "School board candidate filing deadline."
description: "Changes the time frame that a candidate for a school board office is required to file the candidate's petition of nomination. Modifies deadlines concerning a statement questioning the validity of a petition of nomination or contesting the denial of certification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 177"
citation: "Indiana SB 177 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "ELECTIONS", "State and Local Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Officers and Employees (other than teachers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "James Buck", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7223d0eb-8152-4fd3-8700-7cb419642a77"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/177"
source_hash: "5db9696c035cd97b29adbcb4443723fde72367798906a9bad0188c2683964dd8"
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 177 (2023) — School board candidate filing deadline.

Changes the time frame that a candidate for a school board office is required to file the candidate's petition of nomination. Modifies deadlines concerning a statement questioning the validity of a petition of nomination or contesting the denial of certification.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 177 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Senator Buck added as second author
- **2023-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Amendment #4 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
- **2023-02-07** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Representative Prescott added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 313: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 320: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 34 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/7223d0eb-8152-4fd3-8700-7cb419642a77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).