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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: "SB 2"
citation: "Indiana SB 2 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Eric Koch", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f8a6279-d810-43de-8dfa-3f3251cf1a2d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/2"
source_hash: "a7b781a0f1d0191e3bfcc1c326886eb0e304ed365d7dc31a6a6c165dcd9bedda"
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 2 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0002/versions/sb0002.03.comh)
## Votes
- SB 2 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- SB 2 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **960** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David Ober — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-03** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2017-01-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2017-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 21: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2017-01-24** Cosponsor: Representative DeVon
- **2017-01-27** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 36
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f8a6279-d810-43de-8dfa-3f3251cf1a2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).