republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1626.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning telecommunications.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning telecommunications.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1626	Indiana HB 1626 (2017)	bill	TELECOMMUNICATIONS Telephone Television Radio and Internet STUDY COMMITTEES	enacted	Eric Koch Jean Leising Mark Messmer Sharon Negele	5	24	2	2017-01-24	2017-04-12	openstates	ocd-bill/f4dcda8e-0a1c-4b9c-8e95-b6187f3119f8	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1626	10c834474e164b27d9b7c2f5a47997edc08e7d57d956ac21b53d7dca0d8931b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1626 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning telecommunications.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1626 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1626 - Negele - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jean Leising — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Sharon Negele — primary (person)
• David Ober — coauthor (person)
• Karlee Macer — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
• Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-24 Authored by Representative Negele
• 2017-01-24 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Representative Speedy added as coauthor
• 2017-02-06 Representatives Macer and Pierce added as coauthors
• 2017-02-07 Representative Speedy removed as coauthor
• 2017-02-07 Representative Ober added as coauthor
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-21 Senate sponsors: Senators Messmer and Leising
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 186: yeas 93, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-27 Senator Koch added as third sponsor
• 2017-03-27 Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
• 2017-04-04 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-05 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 403: yeas 47, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-06 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-06 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-11 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-12 Public Law 33
• 2017-04-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4dcda8e-0a1c-4b9c-8e95-b6187f3119f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).