republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1178.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1178	Indiana HB 1178 (2017)	bill	ELECTIONS Voters and Voting; Registration	enacted	Clyde Kersey David Niezgodski Jon Ford Vaneta Becker	5	21	2	2017-01-09	2017-04-20	openstates	ocd-bill/f40389c3-26ef-48c7-b25f-928e96af5403	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1178	e172cfd3a53d53ff46cc42345f373dd870a8b6d91a00398cba38b927fbbc87e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1178 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1178 - Becker - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1178 - Kersey - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Clyde Kersey — primary (person)
• David Niezgodski — primary (person)
• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
• Kathy Richardson — coauthor (person)
• Milo Smith — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Authored by Representative Kersey
• 2017-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-16 Representatives Smith, M., Richardson, Judy added as coauthors
• 2017-02-21 Amendment #1 (Smith M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-02-21 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-22 Senate sponsors: Senators Becker, Ford and Niezgodski
• 2017-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-23 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-27 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 337: yeas 47, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-04 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-11 Motion to concur filed
• 2017-04-12 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 474: yeas 76, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2017-04-17 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-18 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-19 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-20 Public Law 84
• 2017-04-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f40389c3-26ef-48c7-b25f-928e96af5403. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).