republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-213.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning utilities.	A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning utilities.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 213	Indiana SB 213 (2017)	bill	TELECOMMUNICATIONS Telephone Television Radio and Internet UTILITIES	enacted	Brandt Hershman David Ober James Merritt	7	46	2	2017-01-04	2017-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/0dcc4cc1-bb47-48dc-9799-0b3824694605	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/213	6403b6540fa79f5f5a0344ad8257126e7c7086f6695748f35938a235d51af016	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 213 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning utilities.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 213 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — 46–3 (pass) · legislature
• SB 213 - Ober - 3rd Reading — 93–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
• David Ober — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
• Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
• Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
• Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-04 Authored by Senator Long
• 2017-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Utilities referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Senator Long removed as author
• 2017-01-26 Senator Hershman added as author
• 2017-02-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-23 Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-02-23 Amendment #2 (Stoops) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2017-02-23 Amendment #3 (Stoops) failed; Roll Call 173: yeas 9, nays 40 amendment-failure
• 2017-02-23 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-23 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
• 2017-02-27 Senator Merritt added as second author
• 2017-02-27 House sponsor: Representative Ober
• 2017-02-27 Cosponsor: Representative Lehman
• 2017-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 196: yeas 46, nays 3 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-27 Senator Koch added as coauthor
• 2017-02-28 Referred to the House
• 2017-03-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-16 Representative Macer added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-21 Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-04 Placed back on second reading reading-2
• 2017-04-05 Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-04-05 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 410: yeas 93, nays 1 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-07 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-10 Motion to dissent filed
• 2017-04-10 Senate conferees appointed: Hershman and Stoops
• 2017-04-10 Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Randolph Lonnie M and Bohacek
• 2017-04-10 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-11 House advisors appointed: Eberhart, DeVon, Lehman, Macer and Pierce
• 2017-04-11 House conferees appointed: Ober and Hatfield
• 2017-04-12 Representative Negele added as advisor
• 2017-04-21 Senator Merritt added as conferee
• 2017-04-21 Senator Stoops removed as conferee
• 2017-04-21 Senator Merritt removed as advisor
• 2017-04-21 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2017-04-21 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2017-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 532: yeas 43, nays 7
• 2017-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 554: yeas 67, nays 29
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-27 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-05-02 Public Law 261
• 2017-05-02 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0dcc4cc1-bb47-48dc-9799-0b3824694605. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).