HB1197: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Enrolled House Bill (H)
• Current Chamber: house
• Origin Chamber: house
• Description: Election matters.

Legislators

Actions (19 total)

• Apr 17, 2025, 6:21 AM: House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 482: yeas 88, nays 0
• Apr 16, 2025, 10:20 AM: Motion to concur filed
• Apr 16, 2025, 5:56 AM: Returned to the House with amendments
• Apr 15, 2025, 11:56 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 433: yeas 49, nays 0
• Apr 10, 2025, 12:35 PM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Apr 10, 2025, 12:35 PM: Amendment #1 (Walker K) prevailed; Roll Call 374: yeas 28, nays 17
• Mar 31, 2025, 9:42 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Feb 18, 2025, 6:42 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Elections
• Jan 29, 2025, 9:46 AM: Referred to the Senate
• Jan 28, 2025, 9:37 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 31: yeas 85, nays 8
• Jan 28, 2025, 9:35 AM: Cosponsor: Senator Crider
• Jan 28, 2025, 9:34 AM: Senate sponsor: Senator Gaskill
• Jan 27, 2025, 10:42 AM: Representative Jackson added as coauthor
• Jan 27, 2025, 9:15 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Jan 27, 2025, 9:15 AM: Amendment #2 (Lawson) prevailed; voice vote
• Jan 21, 2025, 8:52 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Jan 8, 2025, 4:53 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
• Jan 8, 2025, 4:53 AM: Authored by Representative Lawson
• Jan 8, 2025, 4:53 AM: Coauthored by Representatives Wesco and Pierce K

Digest

Requires particular candidates for selection for an appointment pro tempore to an office to: (1) comply with qualification requirements imposed on candidates for election to the office; and (2) if the individual is a candidate for selection by a caucus, be affiliated with the political party holding the caucus. Allows an individual or entity with authority to select a candidate for an appointment pro tempore to remove a candidate from consideration if the candidate does not meet these requirements. Specifies additional grounds on which certain county officers or a township executive may be charged and deprived of office following a hearing. Provides that if an accused party does not appear before the court, the court may proceed to hear and determine the accusation in the accused party's absence. Includes a member of the county executive, if the county does not contain a consolidated city, in a provision concerning the initiation of an action for removal of a county officer. Exempts a member of the county executive from a requirement concerning physical presence in the county officer's office. Provides that a city-county legislative body may declare the seat of a member vacant by a two-thirds vote if the member fails to perform the duties of the member's office.