republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1633.md

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Bill	Study of election issues.	Requires the secretary of state to do the following: (1) Study scheduling of local elections and requiring all counties to use vote centers. (2) Conduct at least three public meetings on the topics studied. (3) Report the results of the studies to the legislative council before November 1, 2025.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1633	Indiana HB 1633 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Election Division and Election Commission AGENCIES; State Board of Accounts (SBOA) AUDITS AND AUDITORS (Non-Elected) COUNTY GOVERNMENT COURTS; Judges ELECTIONS; Generally ELECTIONS; Local Election Boards LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS; County Clerk	enacted	Ben Smaltz Mike Gaskill	4	20	3	2025-01-21	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ebaf16c9-ef02-4b06-bda9-50bf19c3ab15	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1633	f0725c905c334cbc2355d2b494f447048455cb0a81b88c0e90c0f0745825e738	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1633 (2025) — Study of election issues.

Requires the secretary of state to do the following: (1) Study scheduling of local elections and requiring all counties to use vote centers. (2) Conduct at least three public meetings on the topics studied. (3) Report the results of the studies to the legislative council before November 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1633 - Gaskill - 2nd Reading — 11–37 (fail) · upper
• HB 1633 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — 74–12 (pass) · lower
• HB 1633 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — 35–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Joanna King — coauthor (person)
• Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 Coauthored by Representatives King and Engleman
• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative Smaltz
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-04 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Amendment #2 (Smaltz) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-07 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 74, nays 12 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-06 Senate sponsor: Senator Gaskill
• 2025-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-03 Amendment #1 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 333: yeas 11, nays 37 amendment-failure, failure
• 2025-04-07 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 350: yeas 35, nays 13 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-08 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-15 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-22 Public Law 108 became-law
• 2025-04-22 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebaf16c9-ef02-4b06-bda9-50bf19c3ab15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).