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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 309"
citation: "Indiana SB 309 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "ENERGY", "STUDY COMMITTEES", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "David Ober", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0ca92e5-30c1-4528-b1b7-6d045dcd18f0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/309"
source_hash: "772c6ceeb1910b078237d36315ece23ba183d6b01ae1d7e6b3ce8abc6b0668d9"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0309/versions/sb0309.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0309/versions/sb0309.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0309/versions/sb0309.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0309/versions/sb0309.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0309/versions/sb0309.04.comh)
## Votes
- SB 309 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **5643** (pass) · legislature
- SB 309 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **399** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0ca92e5-30c1-4528-b1b7-6d045dcd18f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).