republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-309.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning utilities.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning utilities.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 309	Indiana SB 309 (2017)	bill	UTILITIES UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION ENERGY STUDY COMMITTEES LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY	enacted	Brandt Hershman David Ober James Merritt	5	25	2	2017-01-09	2017-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c0ca92e5-30c1-4528-b1b7-6d045dcd18f0	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/309	772c6ceeb1910b078237d36315ece23ba183d6b01ae1d7e6b3ce8abc6b0668d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 309 (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 Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 309 - Ober - 3rd Reading — 56–43 (pass) · legislature
• SB 309 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — 39–9 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
• David Ober — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Authored by Senator Hershman
• 2017-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
• 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 #5 (Stoops) failed; Roll Call 175: yeas 10, nays 36 amendment-failure
• 2017-02-23 Amendment #2 (Lanane) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2017-02-23 Amendment #6 (Stoops) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2017-02-23 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-27 Senator Merritt added as second author
• 2017-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 202: yeas 39, nays 9 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-27 House sponsor: Representative Ober
• 2017-02-27 Cosponsor: Representative Soliday
• 2017-02-28 Referred to the House
• 2017-03-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 378: yeas 56, nays 43 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-05 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-05 Motion to concur filed
• 2017-04-10 Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 442: yeas 37, nays 11 amendment-failure
• 2017-04-13 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-19 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-02 Public Law 264
• 2017-05-02 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0ca92e5-30c1-4528-b1b7-6d045dcd18f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).