Indiana Senate Bill 478 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)
Status: Passed on April 28 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-28 - Public Law 236
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Utility easements. Establishes a framework for resolving disputes between electricity suppliers and property owners regarding the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure within an electric easement. Provides that the procedures apply only to an electricity supplier that is a rural electric membership corporation. Provides specified exemptions from the procedures. Specifies that the bill's provisions provide the exclusive remedy to a property owner with respect to the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure on above ground electric facilities within an electric easement. Specifies that the bill's provisions do not provide the exclusive remedy to a property owner if the terms of:

Utility easements. Establishes a framework for resolving disputes between electricity suppliers and property owners regarding the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure within an electric easement. Provides that the procedures apply only to an electricity supplier that is a rural electric membership corporation. Provides specified exemptions from the procedures. Specifies that the bill's provisions provide the exclusive remedy to a property owner with respect to the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure on above ground electric facilities within an electric easement. Specifies that the bill's provisions do not provide the exclusive remedy to a property owner if the terms of:

Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Timothy Lanane [D]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]
Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Erin Houchin [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Sen. Andy Zay [R]	Rep. Matthew Lehman [R]	Rep. Sharon Negele [R]	Rep. Dale DeVon [R]
Rep. David Ober [R]

2017-04-21 - Senate - Senate - Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 49 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-04-20 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 96 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-04-06 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-04-05 - House - House - Motion to divide the question on Amendment #1 (Pierce) prevailed (Y: 61 N: 31 NV: 1 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2017-04-03 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2017-02-28 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-28	Senate	Public Law 236
2017-04-28	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2017-04-25	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2017-04-21	House	Signed by the Speaker
2017-04-21	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2017-04-21	Senate	Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 497: yeas 49, nays 1
2017-04-20	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 513: yeas 96, nays 2
2017-04-20	Senate	CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2017-04-20	House	CCR # 1 filed in the House
2017-04-13	Senate	Senator Zay added as coauthor
2017-04-12	House	Representative Negele added as advisor
2017-04-11	House	House advisors appointed: Lehman, Bacon, Cherry and Pierce
2017-04-11	House	House conferees appointed: Ober and Hatfield
2017-04-10	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Lanane and Zay
2017-04-10	Senate	Senate conferees appointed: Koch and Stoops
2017-04-10	Senate	Motion to dissent filed
2017-04-10	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2017-04-07	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2017-04-06	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 418: yeas 95, nays 2
2017-04-05	House	Amendment #1 (Ober) Question 2 [Sec. 18] prevailed; voice vote
2017-04-05	House	Amendment #1 (Ober) Question 1 [Sec. 17] failed; voice vote
2017-04-05	House	Motion to divide the question on Amendment #1 (Pierce) prevailed; Roll Call 395: yeas 61, nays 31
2017-04-05	House	Amendment #2 (Hatfield) prevailed; voice vote
2017-04-05	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2017-04-03	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-03-28	House	Representative Ober added as cosponsor
2017-03-28	House	Representative Lehman added as sponsor
2017-03-28	House	Representative Ober removed as sponsor
2017-03-07	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
2017-03-01	Senate	Referred to the House
2017-02-28	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2017-02-28	Senate	Senator Kruse added as coauthor
2017-02-28	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Negele and DeVon
2017-02-28	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Ober
2017-02-28	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 237: yeas 48, nays 2
2017-02-27	Senate	Senator Houchin added as coauthor
2017-02-27	Senate	Amendment #3 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote
2017-02-27	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2017-02-23	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
2017-02-20	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-02-16	Senate	Senator Leising added as coauthor
2017-02-16	Senate	Senator Lanane added as coauthor
2017-02-13	Senate	Senator Merritt added as second author
2017-01-12	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities
2017-01-12	Senate	Authored by Senator Koch

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/478/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/c/c/a/1cca68a3/SB0478.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/3/7/7/4377c815/SB0478.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/a/9/e/ca9eb3d8/SB0478.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/2/0/c/d20c08a0/SB0478.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/a/6/e/2a6e2fa6/SB0478.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/0/b/5/a0b56ae5/SB0478.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/2/4/9a248e67/SB0478.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/4/a/b/94abb814/SB0478.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/8/7/7/5877a934/SB0478.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/c/e/4/7ce40dee/SB0478.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/f/0/0/ff00a18d/SB0478.06.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/5/3/6/c5363e33/SB0478.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/0/5/6/705644d4/SB0478.237.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/9/9/f/099f6670/SB0478.03.ENGS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/4/2/2/44228b2d/House_Rule_81.395.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/8/4/2/184265e9/SB0478.418.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/4/8/2/f482474a/SB0478.513.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/8/a/6/38a66bf7/SB0478.497.pdf