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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Certificates of public convenience and necessity."
+description: "Provides that: (1) a rural electric membership corporation (REMC); (2) a nonprofit corporation that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one member that is an REMC; and (3) certain corporations resulting from a merger or consolidation of an REMC and a telephone cooperative corporation; are exempt from the requirement that a public utility obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity before beginning the construction, purchase, or lease of certain facilities to be used for furnishing public utility service."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1163"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1163 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CONSTRUCTION", "TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet", "Phone Lines", "Print Media", "Radio", "and Television)", "UTILITIES; Electric", "UTILITIES; Municipal Utilities", "UTILITIES; Rural Electric Membership Cooperatives (REMCs)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dave Hall", "Eric Koch", "Gary Byrne"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb994e95-b0a1-465e-b807-322f5340c31e"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1163"
+source_hash: "dae4cff0ba61b07d6f6a5383afd5861c5fa64069aa2d66b602ce645fac69cc90"
+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 1163 (2024) — Certificates of public convenience and necessity.
+
+Provides that: (1) a rural electric membership corporation (REMC); (2) a nonprofit corporation that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one member that is an REMC; and (3) certain corporations resulting from a merger or consolidation of an REMC and a telephone cooperative corporation; are exempt from the requirement that a public utility obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity before beginning the construction, purchase, or lease of certain facilities to be used for furnishing public utility service.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1163 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1163 - Hall D - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dave Hall — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Gary Byrne — primary (person)
+- Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
+- Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
+- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Hall
+- **2024-01-08** Coauthored by Representatives Soliday, Zimmerman, Pierce M
+- **2024-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 21: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-01-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
+- **2024-01-23** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2024-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Senator Byrne added as second sponsor
+- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Public Law 57 `became-law`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** 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/cb994e95-b0a1-465e-b807-322f5340c31e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+