---
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: "HB 1253"
citation: "Indiana HB 1253 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "Voters and Voting; Registration", "ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Absent Voters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Kathy Richardson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8e5c5fc-9c5b-4c98-b719-b4a25c9e2489"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1253"
source_hash: "84ed98fc1cfad32d9ab0a9e6695671b872a588b48d00e37b881d25b19695b119"
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 1253 (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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1253/versions/hb1253.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1253/versions/hb1253.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1253/versions/hb1253.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1253/versions/hb1253.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1253 - Richardson - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1253 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Kathy Richardson — primary (person)
- Charles Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
- Thomas Saunders — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative Richardson
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Representative Saunders added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Representatives Hatfield and Moseley added as coauthors
- **2018-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Walker
- **2018-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Amendment #1 (Mrvan) failed; Roll Call 221: yeas 15, nays 33 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-22** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 236: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 349: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 116
- **2018-03-15** 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/a8e5c5fc-9c5b-4c98-b719-b4a25c9e2489`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).