---
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: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1519"
citation: "Indiana HB 1519 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES", "PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS; PUBLIC BUILDINGS; PUBLIC PROPERTY", "WATER generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Douglas Eckerty", "Ed Charbonneau", "Heath VanNatter", "Jon Ford"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca395840-afa8-4cc8-bb32-ee8accd53b03"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1519"
source_hash: "e7b3d74fa8b83d649298d3775717fa7991fb00246ab0b0d46f57b9684a85baac"
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 HB 1519 (2017) — 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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1519/versions/hb1519.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1519 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1519 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- David Ober — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Representative Ober added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Representative Pierce added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 202: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau, Eckerty and Ford
- **2017-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Koch added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #3 (Charbonneau) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 426: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 477: yeas 82, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-20** Public Law 91
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-20** 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/ca395840-afa8-4cc8-bb32-ee8accd53b03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).