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type: "Bill"
title: "Certificates of public convenience and necessity."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1163"
citation: "Indiana HB 1163 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSTRUCTION", "TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet", "Phone Lines", "Print Media", "Radio", "and Television)", "UTILITIES; Electric", "UTILITIES; Municipal Utilities", "UTILITIES; Rural Electric Membership Cooperatives (REMCs)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Hall", "Eric Koch", "Gary Byrne"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb994e95-b0a1-465e-b807-322f5340c31e"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1163"
source_hash: "dae4cff0ba61b07d6f6a5383afd5861c5fa64069aa2d66b602ce645fac69cc90"
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 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](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1163/HB1163.01.INTR.pdf)
## Votes
- HB 1163 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · upper
- HB 1163 - Hall D - 3rd Reading — **940** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb994e95-b0a1-465e-b807-322f5340c31e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).