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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 199: Conduct of primary elections.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 199 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Conduct of primary elections. Primary sponsor: Tim Wesco (Republican), Linda Rogers (Republican), Mike Gaskill (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (April 1, 2025): Public Law 11.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Provides that two or more candidates of a political party may sign a written statement indicating their desire to name a watcher to be present at a county primary election. (Current law requires that 26% or more of all candidates of a political party must sign a written statement to indicate a desire to name a watcher.) Allows a county chairman of a political party to appoint a watcher to each precinct in which the political party has a candidate on the ballot if two or more candidates do not sign a written statement to request a watcher.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Tim WescoPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse21
Linda RogersPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate11
Mike GaskillPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate25
Joanna KingCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse49

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Public Law 11
  2. Signed by the Governor
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  5. Signed by the Speaker
  6. Returned to the Senate without amendments
  7. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 90, nays 0
  8. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  9. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  10. First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
  11. Referred to the House
  12. Senator Rogers added as second author

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source