republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-352.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Broadband development."
description: "Requires the office of community and rural affairs (office) to establish a process to be used before each formal submission of applications for grants from the rural broadband fund (fund) in which the office will: (1) invite any prospective grant applicant to submit a letter of intent identifying all addresses and census blocks that the applicant intends to include in a grant application; and (2) make all addresses and census blocks submitted in letters of intent publicly available for a period of time, during which eligible broadband service providers will have the opportunity to challenge a listed address or census block. Provides that challenges under the new process are to be based on the asserted deployment of \"minimum broadband Internet\" (defined as a terrestrial connection to the Internet that provides an actual speed of at least 25 megabits per second downstream and at least three megabits per second upstream) at a specific address. Specifies that the process established is to precede and remain distinct from the statutory procedures for actual grant applications. Provides that the department of transportation (INDOT) may require a private entity to agree, as a condition of INDOT leasing a right-of-way to the private entity, that facilities constructed or installed by the private entity in or under the right-of-way, which if removed would: (1) cause irreparable soil disturbance; or (2) have a detrimental effect on INDOT's facilities or on the facilities of other utilities; will be considered abandoned without additional consideration, upon the private entity's written notice to INDOT. Provides that upon being abandoned, a facility may no longer be used for any purpose by any public or private entity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 352"
citation: "Indiana SB 352 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["RURAL PROGRAMS", "NON-AGRICULTURAL", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet", "TRANSPORTATION", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Erin Houchin", "Ethan Manning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91564630-5ce0-4b68-bc55-1fac98ebab08"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/352"
source_hash: "961b6fc6de33302bff03dfe2cd8942371c361a12cbc2f03056a6999786ae240f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 352 (2021) — Broadband development.

Requires the office of community and rural affairs (office) to establish a process to be used before each formal submission of applications for grants from the rural broadband fund (fund) in which the office will: (1) invite any prospective grant applicant to submit a letter of intent identifying all addresses and census blocks that the applicant intends to include in a grant application; and (2) make all addresses and census blocks submitted in letters of intent publicly available for a period of time, during which eligible broadband service providers will have the opportunity to challenge a listed address or census block. Provides that challenges under the new process are to be based on the asserted deployment of "minimum broadband Internet" (defined as a terrestrial connection to the Internet that provides an actual speed of at least 25 megabits per second downstream and at least three megabits per second upstream) at a specific address. Specifies that the process established is to precede and remain distinct from the statutory procedures for actual grant applications. Provides that the department of transportation (INDOT) may require a private entity to agree, as a condition of INDOT leasing a right-of-way to the private entity, that facilities constructed or installed by the private entity in or under the right-of-way, which if removed would: (1) cause irreparable soil disturbance; or (2) have a detrimental effect on INDOT's facilities or on the facilities of other utilities; will be considered abandoned without additional consideration, upon the private entity's written notice to INDOT. Provides that upon being abandoned, a facility may no longer be used for any purpose by any public or private entity.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.05.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.06.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.02.COMS)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0352/versions/SB0352.03.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 352 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Ethan Manning — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2021-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** Senator Garten added as coauthor
- **2021-02-11** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2021-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Senators Donato and Leising added as coauthors
- **2021-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Manning
- **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 193: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01** Amendment #1 (Manning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 355: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 435: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-26** Public Law 121
- **2021-04-26** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91564630-5ce0-4b68-bc55-1fac98ebab08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).