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type: "Bill"
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title: "Municipal elections."
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description: "Authorizes the legislative body of a town or of a city (if the city has a population of less than 3,500) to adopt an ordinance to move the election of all elected offices of the municipality to even-numbered years."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 1147"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1147 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "ELECTIONS generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Jean Leising", "Philip Boots"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-01-08"
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last_action: "2020-03-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92327435-5ed5-462c-9874-1906c125d1a0"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1147"
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source_hash: "c595fd8aa65c268abfcbad2487b49862d49725c268f24bcfd43f8d35d7af6869"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana HB 1147 (2020) — Municipal elections.
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Authorizes the legislative body of a town or of a city (if the city has a population of less than 3,500) to adopt an ordinance to move the election of all elected offices of the municipality to even-numbered years.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.04.ENRS)
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2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.03.COMS)
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3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.02.COMH)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1147/versions/HB1147.01.INTR)
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## Votes
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- HB 1147 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **42–6** (pass) · upper
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- HB 1147 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **93–5** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
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- Jean Leising — primary (person)
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- Philip Boots — primary (person)
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- Chris May — coauthor (person)
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- Timothy Wesco — coauthor (person)
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- Tonya Pfaff — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Wesco
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- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Morrison
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- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-09** Representative Pfaff added as coauthor
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- **2020-01-14** Representative May added as coauthor
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- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
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- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 93, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
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- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
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- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 42, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
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- **2020-02-24** Senator Leising added as second sponsor
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- **2020-02-25** Returned to the House without amendments
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- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
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- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2020-03-30** Public Law 107
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92327435-5ed5-462c-9874-1906c125d1a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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