republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/hb-1267.md

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Bill	Withdrawal of candidates.	Provides that a candidate may withdraw from being a candidate not later than noon 81 days before the date of a primary election. (Under current law, a candidate wanting to withdraw must do so not later than noon 85 days before the primary election.)	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	HB 1267	Indiana HB 1267 (2020)	bill	ELECTIONS generally	enacted	John Crane Mark Messmer Matt Hostettler	4	19	2	2020-01-14	2020-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/65a40273-f3d3-4286-a1d8-ecc8fa2a1bd5	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1267	c77abeb5e75a26a42862f1790a88ba6af303e32cc279abcede5def6f23295dee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1267 (2020) — Withdrawal of candidates.

Provides that a candidate may withdraw from being a candidate not later than noon 81 days before the date of a primary election. (Under current law, a candidate wanting to withdraw must do so not later than noon 85 days before the primary election.)

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 1267 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1267 - Hostettler - 3rd Reading — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John Crane — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Matt Hostettler — primary (person)
• Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
• Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
• Timothy Wesco — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-14 Authored by Representative Hostettler
• 2020-01-14 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Representatives Wesco, Borders, Moseley added as coauthors
• 2020-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-28 Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
• 2020-01-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 99: yeas 97, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-29 Referred to the Senate
• 2020-02-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-20 Senator Crane added as second sponsor
• 2020-02-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-25 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2020-03-02 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-03 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-30 Public Law 123

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65a40273-f3d3-4286-a1d8-ecc8fa2a1bd5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).