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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: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1050"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1050 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["UTILITIES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "James Merritt", "Mark Messmer"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-03"
+last_action: "2018-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85d32942-de5e-41dc-9a1d-ef472285446d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1050"
+source_hash: "bd31914b02e7494a74e697d1eca1e975b62a8c3fdd1fdc056f441b75444a7810"
+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 1050 (2018) — 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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1050/versions/hb1050.03.engh)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1050/versions/hb1050.05.enrs)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1050/versions/hb1050.04.coms)
+4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1050/versions/hb1050.02.comh)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1050/versions/hb1050.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1050 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1050 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **75–17** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Ober — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
+- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-03** Coauthored by Representative Hatfield
+- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Ober
+- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Representative Frye added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-29** Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 78: yeas 75, nays 17 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
+- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
+- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 209: yeas 45, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-20** Senator Merritt added as second sponsor
+- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2018-02-21** Returned to the House without amendments
+- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-08** Public Law 23
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85d32942-de5e-41dc-9a1d-ef472285446d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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