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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning utilities."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning utilities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1519"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1519 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["UTILITIES", "PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS; PUBLIC BUILDINGS; PUBLIC PROPERTY", "WATER generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Douglas Eckerty", "Ed Charbonneau", "Heath VanNatter", "Jon Ford"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-18"
+last_action: "2017-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca395840-afa8-4cc8-bb32-ee8accd53b03"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1519"
+source_hash: "e7b3d74fa8b83d649298d3775717fa7991fb00246ab0b0d46f57b9684a85baac"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana HB 1519 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning utilities.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.05.engs)
+2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.03.engh)
+3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.06.enrs)
+4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.02.comh)
+5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.04.coms)
+6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1519 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1519 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
+- David Ober — coauthor (person)
+- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative VanNatter
+- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Representative Ober added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Representative Pierce added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-21** Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 202: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau, Eckerty and Ford
+- **2017-02-23** Referred to the Senate
+- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-27** Senator Koch added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-03** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Amendment #3 (Charbonneau) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 426: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 477: yeas 82, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-20** Public Law 91
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca395840-afa8-4cc8-bb32-ee8accd53b03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+