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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 220"
citation: "Indiana SB 220 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Precincts and Precinct Committeemen", "LAKE COUNTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Harold Slager", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93dd09e6-4024-4ead-9ce8-4df9135aa1b8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/220"
source_hash: "921fa80d81d227df5c8868fa79f7e4c19a4a3b46322701a3e9fcd0a68a042101"
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 220 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0220/versions/sb0220.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0220/versions/sb0220.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0220/versions/sb0220.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0220/versions/sb0220.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0220/versions/sb0220.02.coms)
## Votes
- SB 220 - Slager - 3rd Reading — **5930** (pass) · legislature
- SB 220 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **3811** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Long
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Long removed as author
- **2017-02-09** Senator Niemeyer added as author
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 174: yeas 9, nays 40 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 38, nays 11 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Slager
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsors: Representatives Olthoff and Aylesworth
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #4 (Hatfield) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 332: yeas 59, nays 30 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-02** Public Law 262
- **2017-05-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93dd09e6-4024-4ead-9ce8-4df9135aa1b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).