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Bill
Broadband projects.
Requires the Indiana department of transportation (INDOT) to create a broadband corridor program (dig once program) to manage the location, installation, and maintenance of communications infrastructure that is used for the provision of broadband services and is located within the rights-of-way of limited access highways. Requires INDOT to adopt policies, procedures, and standards under the dig once program for required installation of fiber conduit by a public or private entity that performs an excavation within a limited access highway right-of-way.
us/states/in
Indiana General Assembly
2021
SB 359
Indiana SB 359 (2021)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Telephone
Television
Radio
and Internet
TRANSPORTATION
Department of
enacted
Chris Garten
Eric Koch
Ethan Manning
Scott Baldwin
6
31
1
2021-01-11
2021-04-29
openstates
ocd-bill/693ce2d7-e8ad-4852-920f-d67e0434676b
http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/359
0dfe71e8db6682b4c3ddc51efb26c84a9cb49e551de612187f326e98a2628d2a
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
Indiana SB 359 (2021) — Broadband projects.
Requires the Indiana department of transportation (INDOT) to create a broadband corridor program (dig once program) to manage the location, installation, and maintenance of communications infrastructure that is used for the provision of broadband services and is located within the rights-of-way of limited access highways. Requires INDOT to adopt policies, procedures, and standards under the dig once program for required installation of fiber conduit by a public or private entity that performs an excavation within a limited access highway right-of-way.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
SB 359 - Manning - 3rd Reading — 94– 1 (pass) · lower
Chris Garten — primary (person)
Eric Koch — primary (person)
Ethan Manning — primary (person)
Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
John Crane — coauthor (person)
Kyle Walker — coauthor (person)
Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)
Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-01-11 Coauthored by Senators Brown L, Walker K, Sandlin and Houchin
2021-01-11 Authored by Senators Baldwin, Garten, Koch
2021-01-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
2021-01-25 Senator Bassler added as coauthor
2021-02-11 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy committee-passage, referral-committee
2021-02-15 Senator Doriot added as coauthor
2021-02-15 Senator Yoder added as coauthor
2021-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
2021-02-16 Senator Holdman added as coauthor
2021-02-16 Senators Raatz and Lanane added as coauthors
2021-02-18 Amendment #1 (Baldwin) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
2021-02-18 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
2021-02-18 Senator Gaskill added as coauthor
2021-02-22 Senator Crane added as coauthor
2021-02-22 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2021-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3
2021-02-22 House sponsor: Representative Manning
2021-02-23 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 Representative Prescott added as cosponsor
2021-04-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
2021-04-05 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 356: yeas 94, nays 1 passage, reading-3
2021-04-06 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
2021-04-19 Motion to concur filed
2021-04-20 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 456: yeas 45, nays 0 amendment-failure
2021-04-23 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2021-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
2021-04-28 Signed by the Speaker
2021-04-29 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
2021-04-29 Public Law 156
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/693ce2d7-e8ad-4852-920f-d67e0434676b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).