---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local office campaign finance reports."
description: "Provides that a county election board may provide for electronic filing of campaign finance reports by local candidates and committees. Provides that if a county election board provides for electronic filing of campaign finance reports, the county election board may not require any candidate or committee to file campaign finance reports electronically."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1288"
citation: "Indiana HB 1288 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "ELECTIONS", "State and Local Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Moseley", "Greg Walker", "Karen Tallian"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35188e69-fd4c-4cd5-ba8e-ae7e5ebdefa1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1288"
source_hash: "85bbdf16962a2d025f6ca0a52649d67d7b0c0b92305c5793e60ebed09e2d950d"
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 1288 (2020) — Local office campaign finance reports.

Provides that a county election board may provide for electronic filing of campaign finance reports by local candidates and committees. Provides that if a county election board provides for electronic filing of campaign finance reports, the county election board may not require any candidate or committee to file campaign finance reports electronically.

## 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/HB1288/versions/HB1288.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1288/versions/HB1288.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1288/versions/HB1288.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1288/versions/HB1288.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1288 - Moseley - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1288 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **46–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chuck Moseley — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Alan Morrison — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Authored by Representative Moseley
- **2020-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Representative Morrison added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsors: Senators Walker and Tallian
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-11** 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 229: yeas 46, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **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
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 24

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35188e69-fd4c-4cd5-ba8e-ae7e5ebdefa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).