---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local powers concerning elections."
description: "Provides that a unit does not have the power to adopt an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections, or otherwise conduct an election, except as expressly granted by statute. Specifies that an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections that was adopted before January 1, 2023, is void unless a statute expressly granted the unit the power to adopt the ordinance, resolution, or order."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 106"
citation: "Indiana SB 106 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "Conduct of Elections", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Ford", "James Buck", "Jon Ford", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6407f494-a838-4076-aff8-8c7223f2efc0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/106"
source_hash: "74ba6002ab5e9be91dde1bfa3fa5f5a3f7d16c266f9ff0ab76693a747420f31a"
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 106 (2023) — Local powers concerning elections.

Provides that a unit does not have the power to adopt an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections, or otherwise conduct an election, except as expressly granted by statute. Specifies that an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections that was adopted before January 1, 2023, is void unless a statute expressly granted the unit the power to adopt the ordinance, resolution, or order.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0106/versions/SB0106.05.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0106/versions/SB0106.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0106/versions/SB0106.04.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0106/versions/SB0106.03.COMS)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0106/versions/SB0106.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 106 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J.D. Ford — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
- Pat Boy — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Senator Bray removed as author
- **2023-02-09** Senator Buck added as author
- **2023-02-09** Senator Ford Jon added as second author
- **2023-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Senator Ford J.D. added as third author
- **2023-02-14** Senator Walker G added as coauthor
- **2023-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
- **2023-02-20** Senators Brown L and Freeman added as coauthors
- **2023-02-21** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-13** Representatives Cherry, Pryor, Boy added as cosponsors
- **2023-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-15** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-03-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-05** Public Law 4 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6407f494-a838-4076-aff8-8c7223f2efc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).