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type: "Bill"
title: "Construction of data center by foreign adversary."
description: "Provides that after June 30, 2025, a foreign company may not construct or cause to be constructed a data center in Indiana unless the Indiana utility regulatory commission and the Indiana economic development corporation conduct a joint study of the anticipated electricity use of the prospective data center and certify to the governor and the general assembly that the electricity estimated to be used by the data center will be self-generated and will not affect the load supply of the regional transmission organizations whose service territory includes Indiana."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 431"
citation: "Indiana SB 431 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Economic Development Corporation (IEDC)", "AGENCIES; Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC)", "BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; Generally", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Generally", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Governor", "TECHNOLOGY; Generally", "UTILITIES; Electric"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Edmond Soliday", "Eric Koch", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02c798fd-8610-484b-85e5-6b4b3c2892e1"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0431"
source_hash: "67f66b5933a0cbd3674cd84c42c87299b8b12c0d14cfc8f2fdea8bba1b18b523"
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 431 (2025) — Construction of data center by foreign adversary.
Provides that after June 30, 2025, a foreign company may not construct or cause to be constructed a data center in Indiana unless the Indiana utility regulatory commission and the Indiana economic development corporation conduct a joint study of the anticipated electricity use of the prospective data center and certify to the governor and the general assembly that the electricity estimated to be used by the data center will be self-generated and will not affect the load supply of the regional transmission organizations whose service territory includes Indiana.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0431/SB0431.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0431/SB0431.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0431/SB0431.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0431/SB0431.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 431 - Koch — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 431 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · upper
- SB 431 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **940** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Alaina Shonkwiler — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
- Justin Moed — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 75: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2025-02-04** House sponsor: Representative Soliday
- **2025-02-04** Senators Baldwin, Deery, Donato, Byrne, Busch added as coauthors
- **2025-02-04** Senator Leising added as third author
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Representative Shonkwiler added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 313: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-25** Representative Moed added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 306: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 49 `became-law`
- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02c798fd-8610-484b-85e5-6b4b3c2892e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).