republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1163.md

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Bill	Certificates of public convenience and necessity.	Provides that: (1) a rural electric membership corporation (REMC); (2) a nonprofit corporation that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one member that is an REMC; and (3) certain corporations resulting from a merger or consolidation of an REMC and a telephone cooperative corporation; are exempt from the requirement that a public utility obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity before beginning the construction, purchase, or lease of certain facilities to be used for furnishing public utility service.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	HB 1163	Indiana HB 1163 (2024)	bill	CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet Phone Lines Print Media Radio and Television) UTILITIES; Electric UTILITIES; Municipal Utilities UTILITIES; Rural Electric Membership Cooperatives (REMCs)	enacted	Dave Hall Eric Koch Gary Byrne	4	19	2	2024-01-08	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/cb994e95-b0a1-465e-b807-322f5340c31e	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1163	dae4cff0ba61b07d6f6a5383afd5861c5fa64069aa2d66b602ce645fac69cc90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1163 (2024) — Certificates of public convenience and necessity.

Provides that: (1) a rural electric membership corporation (REMC); (2) a nonprofit corporation that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one member that is an REMC; and (3) certain corporations resulting from a merger or consolidation of an REMC and a telephone cooperative corporation; are exempt from the requirement that a public utility obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity before beginning the construction, purchase, or lease of certain facilities to be used for furnishing public utility service.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1163 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1163 - Hall D - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Hall — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Gary Byrne — primary (person)
• Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
• Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
• Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Authored by Representative Hall
• 2024-01-08 Coauthored by Representatives Soliday, Zimmerman, Pierce M
• 2024-01-16 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-18 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 21: yeas 94, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-22 Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
• 2024-01-23 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2024-02-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Senator Byrne added as second sponsor
• 2024-02-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2024-02-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-04 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Public Law 57 became-law
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cb994e95-b0a1-465e-b807-322f5340c31e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).