---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regional water or sewer district service areas."
description: "Provides that the services in those parts of a regional water, sewage, or solid waste district (district) in which they are provided or made available by the district shall not be curtailed or limited by: (1) the inclusion of all or part of the district's territory, by annexation or otherwise, within the boundaries of: (A) any municipality; or (B) the service territory of another provider of the same services; or (2) the granting of any private franchise to provide the same services within all or part of the district's territory; during the term of any loan under which the district is obligated, regardless of whether the loan is made by a public or private lender. Provides that the occurrence of any of these events does not require a district to secure any franchise, license, or permit as a condition to continuing to provide service to any part of the district's territory served by the district at the time of the occurrence of the event."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 374"
citation: "Indiana SB 374 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "SOLID WASTE", "UTILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Mark Messmer", "Shane Lindauer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/106a943b-8335-435e-b6c1-d58d4cac23b9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/374"
source_hash: "b5d4796e125ee284902ecabde7fb2d5fbd3608266787d4f4303ed19aa86aad8f"
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 374 (2022) — Regional water or sewer district service areas.

Provides that the services in those parts of a regional water, sewage, or solid waste district (district) in which they are provided or made available by the district shall not be curtailed or limited by: (1) the inclusion of all or part of the district's territory, by annexation or otherwise, within the boundaries of: (A) any municipality; or (B) the service territory of another provider of the same services; or (2) the granting of any private franchise to provide the same services within all or part of the district's territory; during the term of any loan under which the district is obligated, regardless of whether the loan is made by a public or private lender. Provides that the occurrence of any of these events does not require a district to secure any franchise, license, or permit as a condition to continuing to provide service to any part of the district's territory served by the district at the time of the occurrence of the event.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0374/versions/SB0374.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0374/versions/SB0374.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0374/versions/SB0374.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0374/versions/SB0374.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0374/versions/SB0374.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 374 - Lindauer - 3rd Reading — **93–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Shane Lindauer — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-27** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 128: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Lindauer
- **2022-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Bartels and Pressel
- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 213: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 27

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/106a943b-8335-435e-b6c1-d58d4cac23b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).