Indiana Senate Bill 61 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: Passed on March 21 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-21 - Public Law 21
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Voting matters. Provides that when a voter casts a straight party ticket in a general or municipal election, the voter is casting a ballot for all candidates of that party whose names appear on the ballot, except candidates for offices in a county or municipality for which more than one individual can be elected (county council member at large; city common council member at large; town council member at large; township board member at large). Groups such offices together on the general election ballot, and requires a voter to cast an individual vote for each candidate for such offices for

Voting matters. Provides that when a voter casts a straight party ticket in a general or municipal election, the voter is casting a ballot for all candidates of that party whose names appear on the ballot, except candidates for offices in a county or municipality for which more than one individual can be elected (county council member at large; city common council member at large; town council member at large; township board member at large). Groups such offices together on the general election ballot, and requires a voter to cast an individual vote for each candidate for such offices for

Sen. Greg Walker [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]	Sen. Pete Miller [R]	Rep. Kathy Richardson [R]
Rep. Milo Smith [R]	Rep. David Ober [R]

2016-03-04 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House Amendments (Y: 28 N: 16 NV: 2 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2016-03-02 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 63 N: 31 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2016-03-01 - House - House - Amendment #4 (Kersey) failed (Y: 26 N: 67 NV: 2 Abs: 5) [FAIL]
2016-02-24 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 33 N: 17 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-25 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 5 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-21	Senate	Public Law 21
2016-03-21	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2016-03-14	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2016-03-09	House	Signed by the Speaker
2016-03-09	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2016-03-04	Senate	Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 325: yeas 28, nays 16
2016-03-03	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2016-03-02	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2016-03-02	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 320: yeas 63, nays 31
2016-03-01	House	Amendment #4 (Kersey) failed; Roll Call 283: yeas 26, nays 67
2016-03-01	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2016-02-25	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2016-02-15	House	Representative Ober added as cosponsor
2016-02-08	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
2016-02-02	Senate	Referred to the House
2016-02-01	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Smith, M.
2016-02-01	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Richardson
2016-02-01	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 79: yeas 33, nays 17
2016-01-28	Senate	Senator Miller, Pete added as coauthor
2016-01-28	Senate	Senator Head added as second author
2016-01-28	Senate	Amendment #5 (Taylor) failed; voice vote
2016-01-28	Senate	Amendment #4 (Tallian) failed; voice vote
2016-01-28	Senate	Amendment #3 (Tallian) failed; voice vote
2016-01-28	Senate	Amendment #2 (Tallian) failed; voice vote
2016-01-28	Senate	Amendment #1 (Miller Pete) prevailed; voice vote
2016-01-28	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2016-01-25	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2016-01-19	Senate	Senator Walker added as author
2016-01-19	Senate	Senator Long removed as author
2016-01-19	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Elections
2016-01-05	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Rules & Legislative Procedure
2016-01-05	Senate	Authored by Senator Long

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/senate/61/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/4/7/e/e47e947f/SB0061.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/3/0/a/a30a76e3/SB0061.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/a/d/f/4adf160d/SB0061.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/e/0/7/6e074dfe/SB0061.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/b/0/f/9b0fb833/SB0061.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/3/a/e/f3aed10b/SB0061.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/7/7/5/87757f55/SB0061.04.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/6/a/8/26a89e66/SB0061.04.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/8/7/d/a87d6ead/SB0061.05.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/3/6/1/3361c097/SB0061.05.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/2/0/7/7207e6f8/SB0061.06.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/7/d/8/e7d825ca/SB0061.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/0/a/4/e0a43110/SB0061.79.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/7/f/8/a7f8396c/SB0061.04.ENGS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/1/6/f/516f8554/SB0061.283.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/2/5/8/6258d893/SB0061.320.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/a/0/e/fa0eaf90/SB0061.325.pdf