--- type: "Bill" title: "Broadband development." description: "Requires the office of community and rural affairs (office) to establish a process to be used before each formal submission of applications for grants from the rural broadband fund (fund) in which the office will: (1) invite any prospective grant applicant to submit a letter of intent identifying all addresses and census blocks that the applicant intends to include in a grant application; and (2) make all addresses and census blocks submitted in letters of intent publicly available for a period of time, during which eligible broadband service providers will have the opportunity to challenge a listed address or census block. Provides that challenges under the new process are to be based on the asserted deployment of \"minimum broadband Internet\" (defined as a terrestrial connection to the Internet that provides an actual speed of at least 25 megabits per second downstream and at least three megabits per second upstream) at a specific address. Specifies that the process established is to precede and remain distinct from the statutory procedures for actual grant applications. Provides that the department of transportation (INDOT) may require a private entity to agree, as a condition of INDOT leasing a right-of-way to the private entity, that facilities constructed or installed by the private entity in or under the right-of-way, which if removed would: (1) cause irreparable soil disturbance; or (2) have a detrimental effect on INDOT's facilities or on the facilities of other utilities; will be considered abandoned without additional consideration, upon the private entity's written notice to INDOT. Provides that upon being abandoned, a facility may no longer be used for any purpose by any public or private entity." jurisdiction: "us/states/in" legislature: "Indiana General Assembly" session: "2021" identifier: "SB 352" citation: "Indiana SB 352 (2021)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["RURAL PROGRAMS", "NON-AGRICULTURAL", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet", "TRANSPORTATION", "Department of"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Erin Houchin", "Ethan Manning"] version_count: 6 action_count: 25 vote_count: 1 first_action: "2021-01-11" last_action: "2021-04-26" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91564630-5ce0-4b68-bc55-1fac98ebab08" source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/352" source_hash: "961b6fc6de33302bff03dfe2cd8942371c361a12cbc2f03056a6999786ae240f" 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 352 (2021) — Broadband development. Requires the office of community and rural affairs (office) to establish a process to be used before each formal submission of applications for grants from the rural broadband fund (fund) in which the office will: (1) invite any prospective grant applicant to submit a letter of intent identifying all addresses and census blocks that the applicant intends to include in a grant application; and (2) make all addresses and census blocks submitted in letters of intent publicly available for a period of time, during which eligible broadband service providers will have the opportunity to challenge a listed address or census block. Provides that challenges under the new process are to be based on the asserted deployment of "minimum broadband Internet" (defined as a terrestrial connection to the Internet that provides an actual speed of at least 25 megabits per second downstream and at least three megabits per second upstream) at a specific address. Specifies that the process established is to precede and remain distinct from the statutory procedures for actual grant applications. Provides that the department of transportation (INDOT) may require a private entity to agree, as a condition of INDOT leasing a right-of-way to the private entity, that facilities constructed or installed by the private entity in or under the right-of-way, which if removed would: (1) cause irreparable soil disturbance; or (2) have a detrimental effect on INDOT's facilities or on the facilities of other utilities; will be considered abandoned without additional consideration, upon the private entity's written notice to INDOT. Provides that upon being abandoned, a facility may no longer be used for any purpose by any public or private entity. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.05.ENGH) 2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.06.ENRH) 3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.01.INTR) 4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.04.COMH) 5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.02.COMS) 6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.03.COMS) ## Votes - SB 352 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Eric Koch — primary (person) - Erin Houchin — primary (person) - Ethan Manning — primary (person) - Chris Garten — coauthor (person) - Jean Leising — coauthor (person) - Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person) - Stacey Donato — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2021-01-11** Authored by Senator Houchin - **2021-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2021-01-25** Senator Garten added as coauthor - **2021-02-11** Senator Koch added as second author - **2021-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2021-02-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2021-02-22** Senators Donato and Leising added as coauthors - **2021-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2021-02-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor - **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Manning - **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 193: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3` - **2021-02-24** Referred to the House - **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2021-03-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2021-04-01** Amendment #1 (Manning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage` - **2021-04-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2021-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 355: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3` - **2021-04-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure` - **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed - **2021-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 435: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure` - **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore - **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker - **2021-04-26** Public Law 121 - **2021-04-26** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature` - **2021-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91564630-5ce0-4b68-bc55-1fac98ebab08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).