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type: "Bill"
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title: "Administration of the broadband ready program."
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description: "Provides that the office of community and rural affairs, rather than the Indiana economic development corporation, administers the broadband ready communities development center."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 177"
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citation: "Indiana SB 177 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet", "RURAL PROGRAMS", "NON-AGRICULTURAL"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Ethan Manning", "Stacey Donato"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-01-06"
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last_action: "2020-03-18"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a60614a-b822-4e4c-a3ca-8c5fe45676a5"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/177"
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source_hash: "feca57ba9d1c354780b1918c79e6ec094cf98ce2e207b2daa0c38ff5dd07494c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 177 (2020) — Administration of the broadband ready program.
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Provides that the office of community and rural affairs, rather than the Indiana economic development corporation, administers the broadband ready communities development center.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.04.ENRH)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.01.INTR)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.02.COMS)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.03.COMH)
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## Votes
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- SB 177 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 177 - Manning - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
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- Ethan Manning — primary (person)
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- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
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- Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Donato
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- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-16** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2020-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-27** Senator Houchin added as second author
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- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 70: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
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- **2020-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Manning
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- **2020-01-29** Referred to the House
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- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-20** Representative Pierce added as cosponsor
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- **2020-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-27** Representative Soliday added as cosponsor
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- **2020-03-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
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- **2020-03-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments
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- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
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- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2020-03-18** Public Law 59
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a60614a-b822-4e4c-a3ca-8c5fe45676a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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