Indiana House Bill 1218 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: Passed on March 30 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-30 - Public Law 46
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Locating underground utility infrastructure. Amends the statute concerning the location of underground utility facilities (state 811 law) to provide that for any new or replacement underground facility that an operator installs or causes to be installed after June 30, 2020, the operator shall ensure that: (1) the materials from which the facility is constructed are capable of being detected from above ground level using standard equipment and technologies used by the utility locating industry; or (2) if the materials from which the facility is constructed are not capable of being detected from above ground level using standard locating techniques, the facility is encased by conductive material or is equipped with an electrically conducting wire or other means of locating the facility while it is underground.

Locating underground utility infrastructure.

Rep. Ethan Manning [R]	Rep. Edmond Soliday [R]	Rep. Dale DeVon [R]	Rep. Mara Reardon [D]
Sen. Stacey Donato [R]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]

2020-03-04 - House - House - House concurred in Senate amendments (Y: 87 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2020-02-24 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2020-02-13 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-01-28 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-01-22 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-30	House	Public Law 46
2020-03-14	House	Signed by the Governor
2020-03-11	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2020-03-09	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2020-03-05	House	Signed by the Speaker
2020-03-04	House	House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 314: yeas 87, nays 0
2020-03-04	House	Motion to concur filed
2020-02-25	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2020-02-24	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 226: yeas 48, nays 0
2020-02-20	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2020-02-17	Senate	Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
2020-02-17	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-02-05	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities
2020-01-29	House	Referred to the Senate
2020-01-28	House	Representatives Soliday, DeVon, Candelaria Reardon added as coauthors
2020-01-28	House	Senate sponsors: Senators Donato and Koch
2020-01-28	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 95: yeas 98, nays 0
2020-01-27	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2020-01-23	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-01-13	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
2020-01-13	House	Authored by Representative Manning

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1218/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/b/5/d/2b5d3dee/HB1218.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/6/9/f/969fcd01/HB1218.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/9/7/2/797262ba/HB1218.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/8/7/5/88754439/HB1218.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/c/a/9acafc29/HB1218.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/3/c/2/83c2af93/HB1218.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/b/f/5/4bf5cbfc/HB1218.04.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/0/d/8/d0d87e21/HB1218.01.INTR.03.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/2/c/f/12cf093e/HB1218.95_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/1/c/5/d1c532ef/HB1218.02.COMH.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/c/7/b/3c7b6f0c/HB1218.226_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/7/3/5/e7355875/HB1218.314_H.pdf