---
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: "SB 125"
citation: "Indiana SB 125 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES", "BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "James Merritt", "Mark Messmer", "Michael Delph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0516d073-0571-42ef-9def-999359cce7c0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/125"
source_hash: "42a2898de1bd812f161456c84d2dd61740915fb07a528547f8053bc25c734328"
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 125 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0125/versions/sb0125.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0125/versions/sb0125.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0125/versions/sb0125.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0125/versions/sb0125.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 125 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **92–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 125 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Ober — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Todd Huston — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Senator Messmer added as second author
- **2018-02-01** Senator Delph added as third author
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 162: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Huston
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 304: yeas 92, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-05** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 93
- **2018-03-15** 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/0516d073-0571-42ef-9def-999359cce7c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).