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Bill Early voting. Provides that the county election board may adopt a resolution authorizing the circuit court clerk to use the office of the circuit court clerk or establish a satellite office to permit voters to cast absentee ballots for at least four hours on the third Saturday preceding election day. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2021 HB 1479 Indiana HB 1479 (2021)
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CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS
ELECTIONS generally
ELECTIONS
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Greg Walker
Jon Ford
Timothy Wesco
4 24 1 2021-01-14 2021-04-23 openstates ocd-bill/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0 http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1479 6cbb7f0b3b3c580db4a94db011dbf9c8b7192f37bf87974ccf71341485b43ead 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana HB 1479 (2021) — Early voting.

Provides that the county election board may adopt a resolution authorizing the circuit court clerk to use the office of the circuit court clerk or establish a satellite office to permit voters to cast absentee ballots for at least four hours on the third Saturday preceding election day.

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 1479 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — 454 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Greg Walker — primary (person)
  • Jon Ford — primary (person)
  • Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
  • Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
  • Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
  • Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)
  • Zach Payne — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-14 Coauthored by Representative Payne
  • 2021-01-14 Authored by Representative Wesco
  • 2021-01-14 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2021-02-01 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2021-02-04 Amendment #1 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 68: yeas 29, nays 61 amendment-failure
  • 2021-02-04 Amendment #2 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 69: yeas 26, nays 64 amendment-failure
  • 2021-02-04 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2021-02-08 Representatives Pryor and Pfaff added as coauthors
  • 2021-02-08 Senate sponsors: Senators Ford Jon and Walker G
  • 2021-02-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3
  • 2021-02-09 Referred to the Senate
  • 2021-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2021-03-15 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2021-03-15 Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
  • 2021-03-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2021-03-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 45, nays 4 passage, reading-3
  • 2021-03-24 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
  • 2021-03-31 Motion to concur filed
  • 2021-04-05 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 358: yeas 93, nays 0 amendment-failure
  • 2021-04-07 Signed by the Speaker
  • 2021-04-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  • 2021-04-22 Signed by the President of the Senate
  • 2021-04-23 Public Law 118
  • 2021-04-23 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).