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Bill	Locating underground utility infrastructure.	Amends the statute concerning the location of underground utility facilities (state 811 law) to provide that for any new or replacement underground facility that an operator installs or causes to be installed after June 30, 2020, the operator shall ensure that: (1) the materials from which the facility is constructed are capable of being detected from above ground level using standard equipment and technologies used by the utility locating industry; or (2) if the materials from which the facility is constructed are not capable of being detected from above ground level using standard locating techniques, the facility is encased by conductive material or is equipped with an electrically conducting wire or other means of locating the facility while it is underground.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	HB 1218	Indiana HB 1218 (2020)	bill	UTILITIES	enacted	Eric Koch Ethan Manning Stacey Donato	4	21	2	2020-01-13	2020-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f374e1ad-21f7-45d6-8f7f-c0af07ea3d8d	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1218	36e3ecb469d3269fea57b1b0b8390f32609d3896bb2be0ea24bbbcf8880cbd0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1218 (2020) — Locating underground utility infrastructure.

Amends the statute concerning the location of underground utility facilities (state 811 law) to provide that for any new or replacement underground facility that an operator installs or causes to be installed after June 30, 2020, the operator shall ensure that: (1) the materials from which the facility is constructed are capable of being detected from above ground level using standard equipment and technologies used by the utility locating industry; or (2) if the materials from which the facility is constructed are not capable of being detected from above ground level using standard locating techniques, the facility is encased by conductive material or is equipped with an electrically conducting wire or other means of locating the facility while it is underground.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1218 - Manning - 3rd Reading — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1218 - Donato - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Ethan Manning — primary (person)
• Stacey Donato — primary (person)
• Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
• Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-13 Authored by Representative Manning
• 2020-01-13 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 Senate sponsors: Senators Donato and Koch
• 2020-01-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 95: yeas 98, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-28 Representatives Soliday, DeVon, Candelaria Reardon added as coauthors
• 2020-01-29 Referred to the Senate
• 2020-02-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-17 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 226: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-25 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-04 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-04 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 314: yeas 87, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2020-03-05 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-30 Public Law 46

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f374e1ad-21f7-45d6-8f7f-c0af07ea3d8d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).