---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal elections."
description: "Authorizes the legislative body of a town or of a city (if the city has a population of less than 3,500) to adopt an ordinance to move the election of all elected offices of the municipality to even-numbered years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1147"
citation: "Indiana HB 1147 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "ELECTIONS generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Jean Leising", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92327435-5ed5-462c-9874-1906c125d1a0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1147"
source_hash: "c595fd8aa65c268abfcbad2487b49862d49725c268f24bcfd43f8d35d7af6869"
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 1147 (2020) — Municipal elections.

Authorizes the legislative body of a town or of a city (if the city has a population of less than 3,500) to adopt an ordinance to move the election of all elected offices of the municipality to even-numbered years.

## 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/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1147 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **42–6** (pass) · upper
- HB 1147 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **93–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Chris May — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — coauthor (person)
- Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Wesco
- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Morrison
- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Representative Pfaff added as coauthor
- **2020-01-14** Representative May added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 93, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 42, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-24** Senator Leising added as second sponsor
- **2020-02-25** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 107

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92327435-5ed5-462c-9874-1906c125d1a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).