---
type: "Bill"
title: "School board candidates."
description: "Specifies that if there is more than one candidate for a school board office within certain designated groups of candidates, the candidates shall appear in a certain order and within the grouping and in alphabetical order according to surname."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 25"
citation: "Indiana SB 25 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION; Local School Boards", "ELECTIONS; Candidates", "ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts)", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Vehicle Bills and Vehicle Joint Resolutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Byrne", "J.D. Prescott", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/762338f4-bc63-4fb1-a60e-da33ffa34a3d"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0025"
source_hash: "1fbb039c4d05d2da4e420f7eb33b10dd586968a71c1a7dd9f2f839a0852dd408"
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 25 (2026) — School board candidates.

Specifies that if there is more than one candidate for a school board office within certain designated groups of candidates, the candidates shall appear in a certain order and within the grouping and in alphabetical order according to surname.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.05.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0025/SB0025.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 25 - Byrne - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 25 - Prescott - 3rd Reading — **91–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary Byrne — primary (person)
- J.D. Prescott — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Senator Byrne added as author
- **2026-01-22** Senator Gaskill added as second author
- **2026-01-22** Senator Bray removed as author
- **2026-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Prescott
- **2026-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 134: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 237: yeas 91, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 7 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/762338f4-bc63-4fb1-a60e-da33ffa34a3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).