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type: "Bill"
title: "Redistricting deadline."
description: "Requires certain redistricting authorities to redistrict or recertify election districts before June 30, 2025, if the election district does not have an office on the ballot during the 2024 general election. Requires certain redistricting authorities to redistrict or recertify election districts after January 1, 2025 and before June 30, 2025, if the election district does have an office on the ballot during the 2024 general election. Assesses a penalty if a redistricting authority fails to redistrict or recertify election districts. Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 135"
citation: "Indiana SB 135 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION; Local School Boards", "ELECTIONS; Local Government Redistricting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Crane", "Mike Gaskill", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ba5eb92-eed9-4dd0-b37d-a32ec9c3a69a"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0135"
source_hash: "028e6ae864b923c85d78da821237e61847fe8b769d78d86372faee1bede0e52e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana SB 135 (2024) — Redistricting deadline.
Requires certain redistricting authorities to redistrict or recertify election districts before June 30, 2025, if the election district does not have an office on the ballot during the 2024 general election. Requires certain redistricting authorities to redistrict or recertify election districts after January 1, 2025 and before June 30, 2025, if the election district does have an office on the ballot during the 2024 general election. Assesses a penalty if a redistricting authority fails to redistrict or recertify election districts. Makes conforming changes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0135/SB0135.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0135/SB0135.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0135/SB0135.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0135/SB0135.04.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 135 - Gaskill - 2nd Reading — **939** (fail) · upper
- SB 135 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 135 - Wesco - 2nd Reading — **2868** (fail) · lower
- SB 135 - Gaskill - 2nd Reading — **940** (fail) · upper
- SB 135 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **900** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Gaskill
- **2024-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Senator Crane added as second author
- **2024-01-29** Amendment #4 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Amendment #3 (Hunley) failed; Roll Call 39: yeas 9, nays 40 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-01-29** Amendment #2 (Ford J.D.) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-01-29** Amendment #1 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 38: yeas 9, nays 39 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 60: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** Amendment #1 (Pierce M) failed; Roll Call 153: yeas 28, nays 68 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** Representative Cherry added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 170: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 18 `became-law`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ba5eb92-eed9-4dd0-b37d-a32ec9c3a69a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).