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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 416"
+citation: "Indiana SB 416 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT", "DEPARTMENT AND AGENCIES", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "WATER generally", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Douglas Eckerty", "Ed Charbonneau", "Karen Tallian"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2b8871b-5893-4941-b660-a8ad4e2efda7"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/416"
+source_hash: "cf053075700b3a5fba1f8e2a9afbacf9d6dea7bb0b82292db1fe29adf2fd35ee"
+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 416 (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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.06.engh)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.07.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.03.coms)
+6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.05.comh)
+7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0416/versions/sb0416.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 416 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **46–2** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 416 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Ober — primary (person)
+- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
+- Greg Beumer — cosponsor (person)
+- James Merritt — coauthor (person)
+- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
+- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
+- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
+- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2017-01-24** Senator Merritt added as coauthor
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Eckerty added as second author
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Tallian added as third author
+- **2017-01-26** Senators Bassler, Niezgodski, Stoops added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Glick added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 162: yeas 46, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Ober
+- **2017-02-21** Cosponsors: Representatives Beumer and Stemler
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 417: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 453: yeas 46, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-21** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
+- **2017-04-21** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-28** Public Law 233
+- **2017-04-28** 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/b2b8871b-5893-4941-b660-a8ad4e2efda7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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