---
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 376"
citation: "Indiana SB 376 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Eric Koch", "Erin Houchin", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96156370-5547-4e7d-9d96-31b6edfc7c62"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/376"
source_hash: "bfca2f278e89290525775d925bb4b4b2ae23aa6fc6dce69f163f91bd25048805"
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 376 (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/sb0376/versions/sb0376.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0376/versions/sb0376.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0376/versions/sb0376.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0376/versions/sb0376.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 376 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **87–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 376 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Senators Messmer and Koch added as coauthors
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 159: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Morrison
- **2017-02-21** Senator Messmer removed as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Senator Messmer added as second author
- **2017-02-21** Senator Zay added as third author
- **2017-02-21** Senator Ford added as coauthor
- **2017-02-22** 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: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 299: yeas 87, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Zay removed as third author
- **2017-03-27** Senator Koch removed as coauthor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Koch added as third author
- **2017-03-27** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-04-18** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 476: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 171
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96156370-5547-4e7d-9d96-31b6edfc7c62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).