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---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning utilities."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning utilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 213"
citation: "Indiana SB 213 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet", "UTILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "David Ober", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 46
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dcc4cc1-bb47-48dc-9799-0b3824694605"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/213"
source_hash: "6403b6540fa79f5f5a0344ad8257126e7c7086f6695748f35938a235d51af016"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.04.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.06.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.07.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.02.coms)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0213/versions/sb0213.03.coms)
## Votes
- SB 213 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **463** (pass) · legislature
- SB 213 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **931** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0dcc4cc1-bb47-48dc-9799-0b3824694605`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).