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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: "SB 2"
+citation: "Indiana SB 2 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["UTILITIES", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Eric Koch", "James Merritt"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f8a6279-d810-43de-8dfa-3f3251cf1a2d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/2"
+source_hash: "a7b781a0f1d0191e3bfcc1c326886eb0e304ed365d7dc31a6a6c165dcd9bedda"
+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 SB 2 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 2 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 2 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Ober — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
+- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Merritt
+- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-03** Senator Koch added as second author
+- **2017-01-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-01-23** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
+- **2017-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 21: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Ober
+- **2017-01-24** Cosponsor: Representative DeVon
+- **2017-01-27** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-16** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 36
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f8a6279-d810-43de-8dfa-3f3251cf1a2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+