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type: "Bill"
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title: "Early voting."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2021"
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identifier: "HB 1479"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1479 (2021)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS", "ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Absent Voters"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Jon Ford", "Timothy Wesco"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2021-01-14"
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last_action: "2021-04-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1479"
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source_hash: "6cbb7f0b3b3c580db4a94db011dbf9c8b7192f37bf87974ccf71341485b43ead"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana HB 1479 (2021) — Early voting.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.04.ENRS)
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2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.02.COMH)
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3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.03.COMS)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1479/versions/HB1479.01.INTR)
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## Votes
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- HB 1479 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Greg Walker — primary (person)
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- Jon Ford — primary (person)
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- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
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- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
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- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
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- Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)
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- Zach Payne — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representative Payne
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- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Wesco
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- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2021-02-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2021-02-04** Amendment #1 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 68: yeas 29, nays 61 `amendment-failure`
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- **2021-02-04** Amendment #2 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 69: yeas 26, nays 64 `amendment-failure`
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- **2021-02-04** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2021-02-08** Representatives Pryor and Pfaff added as coauthors
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- **2021-02-08** Senate sponsors: Senators Ford Jon and Walker G
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- **2021-02-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-02-09** Referred to the Senate
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- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2021-03-15** Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
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- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 45, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
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- **2021-03-31** Motion to concur filed
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- **2021-04-05** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 358: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
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- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Speaker
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- **2021-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2021-04-23** Public Law 118
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- **2021-04-23** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fdbc39ba-c2be-4adf-9d71-4879818204a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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