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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibition of ranked choice voting."
description: "Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "Indiana SB 12 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS; Conducting Elections (Excluding Recounts)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Chris Garten", "Mike Gaskill", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fdde8cb-927e-446d-94cf-214cc110af78"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0012"
source_hash: "972b86a7f90c7e43bde6c30951343a6136ee81405035f77639b752f899145617"
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 12 (2026) — Prohibition of ranked choice voting.
Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0012/SB0012.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 12 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **5830** (pass) · lower
- SB 12 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **389** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Ethan Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
- Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-08** Coauthored by Senators Rogers, Byrne
- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senators Doriot, Garten, Gaskill
- **2025-12-10** Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
- **2026-01-12** Senator Clark added as coauthor
- **2026-01-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-13** Senators Holdman, Goode, Glick, Leising added as coauthors
- **2026-01-13** Senator Young M added as coauthor
- **2026-01-13** Senators Buck, Raatz, Freeman, Dernulc added as coauthors
- **2026-01-15** Amendment #1 (Hunley) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2026-01-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-15** Senators Brown L, Johnson T, Koch, Tomes added as coauthors
- **2026-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 34: yeas 38, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-20** Cosponsors: Representatives Lawson, Bartels
- **2026-01-20** Senator Alexander added as coauthor
- **2026-01-20** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
- **2026-01-22** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 58, nays 30 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 5 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fdde8cb-927e-446d-94cf-214cc110af78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).