Indiana Senate Bill 327 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: Passed on March 15 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-15 - Public Law 100
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Election security; absentee ballot counting. Makes the following changes concerning election security: (1) Permits a county election board (board) to apply to the secretary of state (secretary) for reimbursement of expenditures made by the county to secure and monitor facilities where voting systems and electronic poll books are stored. Provides that, if the secretary, with the consent of the election division (division), approves the application, the county may be reimbursed for all or part of the expenditures. (2) Allows each absentee ballot to be assigned a unique tracking number using IMb Tracing or a similar automated tracking method to provide

Election security; absentee ballot counting. Makes the following changes concerning election security: (1) Permits a county election board (board) to apply to the secretary of state (secretary) for reimbursement of expenditures made by the county to secure and monitor facilities where voting systems and electronic poll books are stored. Provides that, if the secretary, with the consent of the election division (division), approves the application, the county may be reimbursed for all or part of the expenditures. (2) Allows each absentee ballot to be assigned a unique tracking number using IMb Tracing or a similar automated tracking method to provide

Sen. Greg Walker [R]	Sen. Erin Houchin [R]	Sen. Jon Ford [R]	Sen. Jean Breaux [D]
Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Kathy Richardson [R]	Rep. Christopher Judy [R]	Rep. Milo Smith [R]
Rep. John Bartlett [D]

2018-03-07 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 46 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2018-03-05 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2018-03-01 - House - House Floor - (Y: 67 N: 22 NV: 5 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2018-02-21 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2018-02-05 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2018-01-29 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-22 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-15	Senate	Public Law 100
2018-03-15	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2018-03-14	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2018-03-13	House	Signed by the Speaker
2018-03-12	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2018-03-07	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 360: yeas 46, nays 0
2018-03-07	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2018-03-06	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2018-03-06	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2018-03-05	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 316: yeas 95, nays 0
2018-03-01	House	Representative Bartlett added as cosponsor
2018-03-01	House	Amendment #2 (Hatfield) ruled out of order
2018-03-01	House	Amendment #3 (Smith M) prevailed; voice vote
2018-03-01	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2018-02-22	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2018-02-12	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
2018-02-06	Senate	Referred to the House
2018-02-05	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Judy and Smith, M.
2018-02-05	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Richardson
2018-02-05	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 141: yeas 48, nays 0
2018-02-01	Senate	Senator Ford added as third author
2018-02-01	Senate	Senator Houchin added as second author
2018-02-01	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2018-01-29	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2018-01-25	Senate	Senator Breaux added as coauthor
2018-01-23	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Elections
2018-01-23	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2018-01-04	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Elections
2018-01-04	Senate	Authored by Senator Walker

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/327/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/9/2/6/6926ff07/SB0327.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/b/d/1/7bd11221/SB0327.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/a/f/5/7af59d86/SB0327.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/2/1/a/621a4a8e/SB0327.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/f/d/7/dfd7f187/SB0327.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/8/4/1/b8419696/SB0327.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/1/8/6/6186f8fd/SB0327.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/7/8/c/c78cab65/SB0327.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/0/b/f/40bf7392/SB0327.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/a/e/3/2ae327cb/SB0327.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/3/7/1/63717a39/SB0327.06.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/2/c/7/c2c71116/SB0327.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/5/1/d/b51dd0f4/SB0327.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/5/2/6/45267661/SB0327.141.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/0/d/7/00d7bbc1/SB0327.03.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/8/f/9/98f91dc8/SB0327.297.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/0/a/f/70af5ef9/SB0327.316.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/4/b/3/b4b3d34b/SB0327.360.pdf