republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-199.md

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Bill	Conduct of primary elections.	Provides that two or more candidates of a political party may sign a written statement indicating their desire to name a watcher to be present at a county primary election. (Current law requires that 26% or more of all candidates of a political party must sign a written statement to indicate a desire to name a watcher.) Allows a county chairman of a political party to appoint a watcher to each precinct in which the political party has a candidate on the ballot if two or more candidates do not sign a written statement to request a watcher.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 199	Indiana SB 199 (2025)	bill	ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts) ELECTIONS; Political Parties ELECTIONS; Primary Elections	enacted	Linda Rogers Mike Gaskill Timothy Wesco	4	19	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/dfd3925a-d34a-4b11-a373-7641b7252ed6	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0199	1b71208542a4ac8f23e6e7f9bb749c66ae7f1b40a4198886f336368c2d619c05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 199 (2025) — Conduct of primary elections.

Provides that two or more candidates of a political party may sign a written statement indicating their desire to name a watcher to be present at a county primary election. (Current law requires that 26% or more of all candidates of a political party must sign a written statement to indicate a desire to name a watcher.) Allows a county chairman of a political party to appoint a watcher to each precinct in which the political party has a candidate on the ballot if two or more candidates do not sign a written statement to request a watcher.

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

Votes

• SB 199 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 199 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
• Joanna King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Authored by Senator Gaskill
• 2025-01-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-21 House sponsor: Representative Wesco
• 2025-01-21 Cosponsor: Representative King
• 2025-01-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 10: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-01-22 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-01-21 Senator Rogers added as second author
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-21 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-24 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-03-24 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-01 Public Law 11 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfd3925a-d34a-4b11-a373-7641b7252ed6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).