republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/hb-1050.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	2018	HB 1050	Indiana HB 1050 (2018)	bill	UTILITIES	enacted	David Ober James Merritt Mark Messmer	5	22	2	2018-01-03	2018-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/85d32942-de5e-41dc-9a1d-ef472285446d	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1050	bd31914b02e7494a74e697d1eca1e975b62a8c3fdd1fdc056f441b75444a7810	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1050 (2018) — 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 House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1050 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 45–4 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1050 - Ober - 3rd Reading — 75–17 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• David Ober — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-03 Coauthored by Representative Hatfield
• 2018-01-03 Authored by Representative Ober
• 2018-01-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-22 Representative Frye added as coauthor
• 2018-01-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-01-29 Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2018-01-29 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 78: yeas 75, nays 17 reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-30 Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
• 2018-01-31 Referred to the Senate
• 2018-02-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-15 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 209: yeas 45, nays 4 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-20 Senator Merritt added as second sponsor
• 2018-02-20 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-21 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2018-03-01 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-05 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-07 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-08 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2018-03-08 Public Law 23

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85d32942-de5e-41dc-9a1d-ef472285446d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).