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Bill Rural communications cooperatives. Changes the rural telephone cooperative act to the rural communications cooperative act, allowing the formation of nonprofit cooperative corporations for the purposes of providing telecommunications service and information service, including video service, broadband service, and VOIP service. Makes conforming amendments. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2020 SB 343 Indiana SB 343 (2020)
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Eric Koch
Erin Houchin
Ethan Manning
Mark Messmer
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Indiana SB 343 (2020) — Rural communications cooperatives.

Changes the rural telephone cooperative act to the rural communications cooperative act, allowing the formation of nonprofit cooperative corporations for the purposes of providing telecommunications service and information service, including video service, broadband service, and VOIP service. Makes conforming amendments.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

  • SB 343 - Manning - 3rd Reading — 870 (pass) · lower
  • SB 343 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — 490 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Eric Koch — primary (person)
  • Erin Houchin — primary (person)
  • Ethan Manning — primary (person)
  • Mark Messmer — primary (person)
  • Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
  • Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)
  • Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
  • John Crane — coauthor (person)
  • Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
  • Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
  • Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
  • Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-13 Authored by Senators Houchin and Messmer
  • 2020-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2020-01-30 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2020-01-30 Senator Koch added as third author
  • 2020-01-30 Senator Leising added as coauthor
  • 2020-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-03 Senator Kruse added as coauthor
  • 2020-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 169: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2020-02-04 House sponsor: Representative Manning
  • 2020-02-04 Senators Crider, Crane, Bohacek added as coauthors
  • 2020-02-04 Senator Glick added as coauthor
  • 2020-02-05 Referred to the House
  • 2020-02-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2020-02-18 Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
  • 2020-02-20 Representative Pierce added as cosponsor
  • 2020-02-24 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2020-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-27 Representative Soliday added as cosponsor
  • 2020-03-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 238: yeas 87, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2020-03-03 Returned to the Senate without amendments
  • 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  • 2020-03-16 Signed by the Speaker
  • 2020-03-18 Public Law 81
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7c16378-aae2-4f34-94a8-82a300ec0b37. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).