---
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 156"
citation: "Indiana SB 156 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Erin Houchin", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e7de486-a222-4ad8-9aff-c320b92f307f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/156"
source_hash: "978a4ea20f482c6f4303f3fe014501cfcc8767a865b6bf413c5e9ae4f8d63a93"
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 156 (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/sb0156/versions/sb0156.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0156/versions/sb0156.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0156/versions/sb0156.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0156/versions/sb0156.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 156 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 156 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2018-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Frye R
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Representative VanNatter added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 49

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e7de486-a222-4ad8-9aff-c320b92f307f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).