SB0526: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Engrossed Senate Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: senate
• Description: Absentee ballot retraction.

Legislators

Actions (22 total)

• Apr 16, 2025, 10:44 AM: Senator Schmitt added as advisor
• Apr 15, 2025, 7:27 AM: House advisors appointed: Pierce K, Pressel, Boy, Errington and Pryor
• Apr 15, 2025, 7:26 AM: House conferees appointed: Wesco and Jackson C
• Apr 14, 2025, 4:01 PM: Senate dissented from House amendments
• Apr 14, 2025, 2:11 PM: Motion to dissent filed
• Apr 14, 2025, 6:49 AM: Senate advisors appointed: Ford J.D. and Donato
• Apr 14, 2025, 6:49 AM: Senate conferees appointed: Gaskill and Spencer
• Apr 2, 2025, 4:50 AM: Returned to the Senate with amendments
• Apr 1, 2025, 11:42 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 349: yeas 90, nays 0
• Mar 31, 2025, 11:50 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Mar 31, 2025, 11:49 AM: Amendment #3 (Wesco) prevailed; voice vote
• Mar 27, 2025, 6:59 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Mar 3, 2025, 7:22 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
• Feb 21, 2025, 3:47 AM: Referred to the House
• Feb 20, 2025, 11:49 AM: House sponsor: Representative Wesco
• Feb 20, 2025, 11:45 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 213: yeas 47, nays 1
• Feb 17, 2025, 10:09 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Feb 17, 2025, 10:09 AM: Amendment #1 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote
• Feb 13, 2025, 11:58 AM: Senator Donato added as second author
• Feb 10, 2025, 9:11 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
• Jan 16, 2025, 9:14 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Elections
• Jan 16, 2025, 9:14 AM: Authored by Senator Gaskill

Digest

Requires a county election board to test certain voting machines to ensure that an absentee ballot can be retracted before tabulation of the ballot if the ballot is required to be rejected. Requires the public test of a voting system to test whether a rejected ballot is retracted. Voids a March 25, 2022, advisory opinion adopted by the Indiana election commission. Provides that, to be approved by the Indiana election commission for use in Indiana, a voting system must meet certain standards of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United States Election Assistance Commission on February 10, 2021. Allows a county to continue to use an optical scan ballot card voting system or an electronic voting system if certain matters concerning the voting system were approved before October 1, 2025. Allows a voting system to include a retraction feature concerning certain votes cast on absentee ballots.