---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of the broadband ready program."
description: "Provides that the office of community and rural affairs, rather than the Indiana economic development corporation, administers the broadband ready communities development center."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 177"
citation: "Indiana SB 177 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet", "RURAL PROGRAMS", "NON-AGRICULTURAL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Ethan Manning", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a60614a-b822-4e4c-a3ca-8c5fe45676a5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/177"
source_hash: "feca57ba9d1c354780b1918c79e6ec094cf98ce2e207b2daa0c38ff5dd07494c"
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 177 (2020) — Administration of the broadband ready program.

Provides that the office of community and rural affairs, rather than the Indiana economic development corporation, administers the broadband ready communities development center.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 177 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 177 - Manning - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Ethan Manning — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Donato
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Senator Houchin added as second author
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 70: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Manning
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Representative Pierce added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Representative Soliday added as cosponsor
- **2020-03-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 59

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a60614a-b822-4e4c-a3ca-8c5fe45676a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).