---
type: "Bill"
title: "Constitutional amendment ballot question."
description: "Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the residency of a city or town court judge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1019"
citation: "Indiana HB 1019 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS; Public Questions and Referendums"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Mike Aylesworth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-12-01"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95161556-24fb-4c2b-a442-697a77030206"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1019"
source_hash: "6636bcf1c7721d292b6ed83677ce4ba31edfb889895f67112faa4f87c9ed6d83"
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 1019 (2026) — Constitutional amendment ballot question.

Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the residency of a city or town court judge.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1019/HB1019.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1019 - Aylesworth — **66–25** (pass) · lower
- HB 1019 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1019 - Aylesworth - 3rd Reading — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-01** Authored by Representative Aylesworth
- **2025-12-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-05** Reassigned to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
- **2026-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-12** Appeal the ruling of the chair (Hamilton); ruling of the chair sustained Roll Call 33: yeas 66, nays 25
- **2026-01-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-12** Amendment #2 (Hamilton) ruled out of order
- **2026-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2026-01-14** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-01-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 173: yeas 44, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 18 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95161556-24fb-4c2b-a442-697a77030206`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).