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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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Indiana HB 1065 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMPUTERS", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Eric Koch", "Erin Houchin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ac37577-855d-4f0d-a92e-1a6c251218ec"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1065"
source_hash: "decb9622dd01c33410718200af37376ef93d74edffec8e4854ec4a84539e9b6a"
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 HB 1065 (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 (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.01.intr)
## Votes
- HB 1065 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1065 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **920** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David Ober — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- James Merritt — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Messmer — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
- Scott Pelath — coauthor (person)
- Sharon Negele — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-03** Coauthored by Representatives Negele and 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`
- **2018-01-25** Representative Pelath added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Amendment #1 (Pierce) failed; Division of the House: yeas 33, nays 53 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-01** Senate sponsors: Senators Houchin and Koch
- **2018-02-02** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Senators Merritt, Leising, Buchanan, Messmer, Randolph added as cosponsors
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #1 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #2 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #3 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #4 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #6 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Senator Glick added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Ober and Hatfield
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Negele, DeVon and Pierce
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Houchin and Stoops
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Koch, Randolph Lonnie M, Messmer, Merritt and Buchanan
- **2018-03-14** Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as advisor
- **2018-03-14** Senator Stoops removed as conferee
- **2018-03-14** Senator Randolph Lonnie M added as conferee
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 420: yeas 46, nays 2
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 412: yeas 94, nays 1
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 177
- **2018-03-21** 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/6ac37577-855d-4f0d-a92e-1a6c251218ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).