Indiana Senate Bill 388 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on May 13 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-05-13 - Public Law 252
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Provides that a voter casting, or waiting in line to cast, an early vote absentee ballot in person at: (1) a location of an office of the circuit court clerk designated by the circuit court clerk; (2) the office of a board of elections and registration; or (3) a satellite office; when the hour for closing the location or office, or the deadline for voting, occurs, shall be permitted to vote unless otherwise prevented according to law. Provides that an individual designated by the circuit court clerk at an early voting location shall: (1) determine the end of the line of voters who are waiting to vote at the time the hour for closing an early voting location occurs; and (2) use one of the following methods to identify the voters in the line who may vote unless otherwise prevented according to law: (A) writing down the name of each voter; (B) stamping each voter's hand; or (C) standing, or designating another individual to stand, immediately behind the last voter who may vote. Urges the legislative council to assign to the census data advisory committee the study of the election day voting process, including ways to ensure that every voter in line at the hour for closing the polls, and only those voters, may vote.

Election matters.

Sen. Karen Tallian [D]	Sen. Patricia Miller [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Sen. Brent Steele [R]

2013-04-25 - House - House - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2013-04-25 - Senate - Senate - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-03-12 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2013-02-11 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-13	House	Public Law 252
2013-05-11	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2013-05-01	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2013-04-26	House	Signed by the Speaker
2013-04-26	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2013-04-25	House	Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House; Roll Call 602: yeas 98, nays 0
2013-04-25	Senate	Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 526: yeas 50, nays 0
2013-04-25	House	Rules suspended
2013-04-09	House	House advisors appointed: Richardson, C. Brown and Hale
2013-04-09	House	House conferees appointed: Smaltz and Battles
2013-03-28	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Pete Miller, Lanane and Landske
2013-03-28	Senate	Senate conferee appointed: Holdman and Tallian
2013-03-28	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2013-03-28	Senate	Concurrence withdrawn
2013-03-22	Senate	Motion to concur in House amendments filed
2013-03-14	House	Representative C. Brown added as cosponsor
2013-03-14	House	House Rule 105.1 suspended
2013-03-12	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2013-03-12	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 262: yeas 97, nays 0
2013-03-11	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2013-03-11	House	Representative Davis added as cosponsor
2013-03-11	House	House Rule 105.1 suspended
2013-03-07	House	Representatives Richardson and Battles added as cosponsors
2013-03-07	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2013-02-26	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
2013-02-11	Senate	Cosponsor: Rep. Hale
2013-02-11	Senate	House sponsor: Rep. Smaltz
2013-02-11	Senate	Referred to the House
2013-02-11	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 96: yeas 48 and nays 0
2013-02-07	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2013-02-07	Senate	Senator Steele added as coauthor
2013-02-07	Senate	Senator Tallian added as third author
2013-02-07	Senate	Amendment 1 (Pete Miller), prevailed; voice vote
2013-02-07	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2013-02-04	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2013-01-10	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Elections
2013-01-10	Senate	Authored by Senators Pete Miller and Holdman

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2013&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0388
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/IN/IN0388.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SB/SB0388.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SB/SB0388.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SB/SB0388.3.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/ES/ES0388.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SE/SE0388.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Srollcal/0096.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Hrollcal/0262.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Srollcal/0526.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Hrollcal/0602.PDF.pdf