republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/hb-1287.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Water or wastewater service.	Allows a water or wastewater utility to extend service to a developed but underserved area without a deposit from customers if the extension of service will result in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period. Provides that the extension of service will be considered as resulting in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period to the extent that rates to be paid by 50% or more of the customers who could be served by the extension of service would enable the utility to fully recover the weighted cost of debt and depreciation expense attributable to the cost of the main extension for the extension of service. Provides that if a water or wastewater utility determines that an extension of service will not result in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period, the utility may require a deposit or other adequate assurance of performance from the customers to be served by the extension of service. Provides that if a property owner makes an improvement to the property owner's dwelling, the property owner is not required to upgrade or discontinue use of the property's septic tank soil absorption system or to connect to a sewer system if the improvement does not include the addition of a bedroom or bedroom equivalent and the property owner receives a written determination from a qualified inspector that the septic tank soil absorption system is not failing. Provides that if a tract of land is located within the boundaries of a conservancy district established for sewage purposes, no structure located on the tract of land is connected to or served by the conservancy district's sewage service, the tract of land has been annexed by a municipality that will provide sewer service to the tract of land, and other conditions are met, the owner of the tract of land may petition the court that established the conservancy district for the removal of the tract of land from the boundaries of the conservancy district.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	HB 1287	Indiana HB 1287 (2021)	bill	SOLID WASTE UTILITIES WATER Availability and Quality of Drinking Water	enacted	Eric Koch Jim Pressel Jon Ford	5	23	1	2021-01-14	2021-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/f03fe727-03f4-4360-8617-7a3571831ad0	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1287	e7920418ab931aea7b49038945b28fde4027099f69c7158553e4748af3991edd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1287 (2021) — Water or wastewater service.

Allows a water or wastewater utility to extend service to a developed but underserved area without a deposit from customers if the extension of service will result in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period. Provides that the extension of service will be considered as resulting in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period to the extent that rates to be paid by 50% or more of the customers who could be served by the extension of service would enable the utility to fully recover the weighted cost of debt and depreciation expense attributable to the cost of the main extension for the extension of service. Provides that if a water or wastewater utility determines that an extension of service will not result in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period, the utility may require a deposit or other adequate assurance of performance from the customers to be served by the extension of service. Provides that if a property owner makes an improvement to the property owner's dwelling, the property owner is not required to upgrade or discontinue use of the property's septic tank soil absorption system or to connect to a sewer system if the improvement does not include the addition of a bedroom or bedroom equivalent and the property owner receives a written determination from a qualified inspector that the septic tank soil absorption system is not failing. Provides that if a tract of land is located within the boundaries of a conservancy district established for sewage purposes, no structure located on the tract of land is connected to or served by the conservancy district's sewage service, the tract of land has been annexed by a municipality that will provide sewer service to the tract of land, and other conditions are met, the owner of the tract of land may petition the court that established the conservancy district for the removal of the tract of land from the boundaries of the conservancy district.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1287 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jim Pressel — primary (person)
• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Ethan Manning — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-14 Coauthored by Representative Manning
• 2021-01-14 Authored by Representative Pressel
• 2021-01-14 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-02 Senate sponsors: Senators Ford Jon and Koch
• 2021-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 52: yeas 95, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-03 Referred to the Senate
• 2021-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-04-08 Amendment #1 (Ford Jon) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-08 Amendment #4 (Garten) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-08 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-04-12 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2021-04-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 422: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-15 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-19 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 458: yeas 78, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2021-04-22 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-23 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-29 Public Law 189
• 2021-04-29 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f03fe727-03f4-4360-8617-7a3571831ad0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).