republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-106.md

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Bill	Local powers concerning elections.	Provides that a unit does not have the power to adopt an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections, or otherwise conduct an election, except as expressly granted by statute. Specifies that an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections that was adopted before January 1, 2023, is void unless a statute expressly granted the unit the power to adopt the ordinance, resolution, or order.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	SB 106	Indiana SB 106 (2023)	bill	ELECTIONS Conduct of Elections LOCAL GOVERNMENT	enacted	J.D. Ford James Buck Jon Ford Timothy Wesco	5	25	1	2023-01-09	2023-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/6407f494-a838-4076-aff8-8c7223f2efc0	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/106	74ba6002ab5e9be91dde1bfa3fa5f5a3f7d16c266f9ff0ab76693a747420f31a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 106 (2023) — Local powers concerning elections.

Provides that a unit does not have the power to adopt an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections, or otherwise conduct an election, except as expressly granted by statute. Specifies that an ordinance, a resolution, or an order concerning certain elections that was adopted before January 1, 2023, is void unless a statute expressly granted the unit the power to adopt the ordinance, resolution, or order.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 106 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• J.D. Ford — primary (person)
• James Buck — primary (person)
• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
• Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
• Cherrish Pryor — cosponsor (person)
• Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
• Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
• Pat Boy — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-09 Authored by Senator Bray
• 2023-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-09 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-09 Senator Bray removed as author
• 2023-02-09 Senator Buck added as author
• 2023-02-09 Senator Ford Jon added as second author
• 2023-02-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-14 Senator Ford J.D. added as third author
• 2023-02-14 Senator Walker G added as coauthor
• 2023-02-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-20 House sponsor: Representative Wesco
• 2023-02-20 Senators Brown L and Freeman added as coauthors
• 2023-02-21 Referred to the House referral
• 2023-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-03-13 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-03-13 Representatives Cherry, Pryor, Boy added as cosponsors
• 2023-03-14 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 92, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-03-15 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2023-03-20 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-03-22 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-04-04 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-04-05 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2023-04-05 Public Law 4 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6407f494-a838-4076-aff8-8c7223f2efc0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).