---
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).