---
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 411"
citation: "Indiana SB 411 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "ADVERTISEMENTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Heath VanNatter", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/198bb6cf-f3fc-4d31-8da4-41629817060a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/411"
source_hash: "024fef67560b3f9911c77534a95aff4698102735f244111f50908c18ba257bef"
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 411 (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/sb0411/versions/sb0411.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0411/versions/sb0411.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0411/versions/sb0411.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0411/versions/sb0411.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 411 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · legislature
- SB 411 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **95–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Merritt added as second author
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 193: yeas 45, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative VanNatter
- **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** Amendment #1 (Pierce) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 95, nays 1 `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 64

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/198bb6cf-f3fc-4d31-8da4-41629817060a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).