republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/hb-1165.md

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Bill	Municipally owned utilities.	Specifies that the statute concerning the payment for utility services (other than sewer services) provided by a municipally owned utility to rental property does not allow a municipal legislative body to impose a requirement that the owner of the property must: (1) ensure the creditworthiness of the person occupying the property; or (2) accept responsibility for charges incurred by the person occupying the property; by cosigning an agreement or by any other method.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	HB 1165	Indiana HB 1165 (2020)	bill	CITIES AND TOWNS UTILITIES LANDLORDS AND TENANTS	enacted	Eric Koch Jack Sandlin Woody Burton	5	24	2	2020-01-08	2020-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/622b5a14-0399-430b-9ba4-7a17a032fbe2	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1165	2ea908a9c81769b88ae3fca3c3ea98bb289f3f079dfd2b43bbc116dc9966377f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1165 (2020) — Municipally owned utilities.

Specifies that the statute concerning the payment for utility services (other than sewer services) provided by a municipally owned utility to rental property does not allow a municipal legislative body to impose a requirement that the owner of the property must: (1) ensure the creditworthiness of the person occupying the property; or (2) accept responsibility for charges incurred by the person occupying the property; by cosigning an agreement or by any other method.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Engrossed House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1165 - Sandlin - 3rd Reading — 28–18 (pass) · upper
• HB 1165 - Burton - 3rd Reading — 64–31 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
• Woody Burton — primary (person)
• Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
• Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
• Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Authored by Representative Burton
• 2020-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-28 Representatives Pressel, Smaltz, Soliday added as coauthors
• 2020-01-29 Senate sponsor: Senator Sandlin
• 2020-01-29 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 64, nays 31 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-30 Referred to the Senate
• 2020-02-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-25 Amendment #1 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 234: yeas 10, nays 36 amendment-failure
• 2020-02-25 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-25 Senator Koch added as second sponsor
• 2020-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 28, nays 18 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-28 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-03 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-04 Concurrence defeated; Roll Call 307: yeas 33, nays 59
• 2020-03-05 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-10 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 352: yeas 61, nays 34 amendment-failure
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-30 Public Law 161

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/622b5a14-0399-430b-9ba4-7a17a032fbe2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).