republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/hb-1253.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	2018	HB 1253	Indiana HB 1253 (2018)	bill	ELECTIONS Voters and Voting; Registration ELECTIONS generally ELECTIONS Absent Voters	enacted	Greg Walker Kathy Richardson	4	24	2	2018-01-11	2018-03-15	openstates	ocd-bill/a8e5c5fc-9c5b-4c98-b719-b4a25c9e2489	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1253	84ed98fc1cfad32d9ab0a9e6695671b872a588b48d00e37b881d25b19695b119	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1253 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1253 - Richardson - 3rd Reading — 91–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1253 - Walker - 3rd Reading — 47–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Greg Walker — primary (person)
• Kathy Richardson — primary (person)
• Charles Moseley — coauthor (person)
• Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
• Thomas Saunders — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-11 Authored by Representative Richardson
• 2018-01-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-01-29 Representative Saunders added as coauthor
• 2018-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-30 Representatives Hatfield and Moseley added as coauthors
• 2018-01-31 Senate sponsor: Senator Walker
• 2018-01-31 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 91, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-01 Referred to the Senate
• 2018-02-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-22 Amendment #1 (Mrvan) failed; Roll Call 221: yeas 15, nays 33 amendment-failure
• 2018-02-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-22 Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-26 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 236: yeas 47, nays 1 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-26 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-27 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2018-03-07 Motion to concur filed
• 2018-03-07 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 349: yeas 93, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2018-03-08 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-14 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-15 Public Law 116
• 2018-03-15 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8e5c5fc-9c5b-4c98-b719-b4a25c9e2489. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).