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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Municipally owned utilities."
+description: "Specifies that the statute concerning the payment for utility services (other than sewer services) provided by a municipally owned utility to rental property does not allow a municipal legislative body to impose a requirement that the owner of the property must: (1) ensure the creditworthiness of the person occupying the property; or (2) accept responsibility for charges incurred by the person occupying the property; by cosigning an agreement or by any other method."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1165"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1165 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "UTILITIES", "LANDLORDS AND TENANTS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Jack Sandlin", "Woody Burton"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-03-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/622b5a14-0399-430b-9ba4-7a17a032fbe2"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1165"
+source_hash: "2ea908a9c81769b88ae3fca3c3ea98bb289f3f079dfd2b43bbc116dc9966377f"
+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 1165 (2020) — Municipally owned utilities.
+
+Specifies that the statute concerning the payment for utility services (other than sewer services) provided by a municipally owned utility to rental property does not allow a municipal legislative body to impose a requirement that the owner of the property must: (1) ensure the creditworthiness of the person occupying the property; or (2) accept responsibility for charges incurred by the person occupying the property; by cosigning an agreement or by any other method.
+
+## 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/2020/bills/HB1165/versions/HB1165.04.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1165/versions/HB1165.05.ENRS)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1165/versions/HB1165.03.COMS)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1165/versions/HB1165.02.COMH)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1165/versions/HB1165.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1165 - Sandlin - 3rd Reading — **28–18** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1165 - Burton - 3rd Reading — **64–31** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
+- Woody Burton — primary (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
+- Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
+- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Burton
+- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-28** Representatives Pressel, Smaltz, Soliday added as coauthors
+- **2020-01-29** Senate sponsor: Senator Sandlin
+- **2020-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 64, nays 31 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-01-30** Referred to the Senate
+- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Amendment #1 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 234: yeas 10, nays 36 `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-02-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-25** Senator Koch added as second sponsor
+- **2020-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 28, nays 18 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
+- **2020-03-04** Concurrence defeated; Roll Call 307: yeas 33, nays 59
+- **2020-03-05** Motion to concur filed
+- **2020-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 352: yeas 61, nays 34 `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2020-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2020-03-21** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-30** Public Law 161
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/622b5a14-0399-430b-9ba4-7a17a032fbe2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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