Indiana House Bill 1319 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Passed on May 5 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-05-05 - Public Law 189
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Acquisition of distressed utilities. Provides that a public water or wastewater utility that acquires the utility property of a "distressed utility" may petition the utility regulatory commission to include the "cost differential" associated with the acquisition as part of its rate base. Requires the commission to approve a petition under certain circumstances. Requires the commission to report annually to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications concerning such acquisitions. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to cooperate with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a program under which volunteers may monitor the water resource (which

Acquisition of distressed utilities. Provides that a public water or wastewater utility that acquires the utility property of a "distressed utility" may petition the utility regulatory commission to include the "cost differential" associated with the acquisition as part of its rate base. Requires the commission to approve a petition under certain circumstances. Requires the commission to report annually to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications concerning such acquisitions. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to cooperate with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a program under which volunteers may monitor the water resource (which

Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Rep. Christina Hale [D]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Doug Eckerty [R]
Sen. Michael Delph [R]

2015-04-28 - Senate - Senate - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-28 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 97 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-07 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-03-30 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-23 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2015-02-12 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-05	House	Public Law 189
2015-05-05	House	Signed by the Governor
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2015-04-29	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2015-04-29	House	Signed by the Speaker
2015-04-28	Senate	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 525: yeas 45, nays 0
2015-04-28	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 551: yeas 97, nays 1
2015-04-15	Senate	Senate Advisors appointed: Merritt, Tallian and Brown L
2015-04-15	Senate	Senate Conferees appointed: Charbonneau and Stoops
2015-04-15	House	Motion to dissent filed
2015-04-14	House	House Advisors appointed: DeVon, McMillin, Pierce and Forestal
2015-04-14	House	House Conferees appointed: Koch and Hale
2015-04-14	House	House dissented from Senate Amendments
2015-04-08	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2015-04-07	Senate	Senator Delph added as third sponsor
2015-04-07	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 376: yeas 48, nays 0
2015-04-02	Senate	Senator Eckerty added as second sponsor
2015-04-02	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-03-31	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-02-25	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
2015-02-24	House	Referred to the Senate
2015-02-23	House	Senator Charbonneau added as sponsor
2015-02-23	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 96, nays 0
2015-02-19	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-02-16	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-02-12	House	Representative Hale added as coauthor
2015-01-13	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
2015-01-13	House	Authored by Representative Koch

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/house/1319/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/c/1/3/cc13c0a5/HB1319.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/d/f/e/3dfe699f/HB1319.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/c/7/f/dc7f9181/HB1319.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/a/b/d/aabddcf7/HB1319.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/1/5/4/c1544b81/HB1319.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/8/e/2/28e2258a/HB1319.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/d/9/d/ed9db1ec/HB1319.04.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/1/7/f/b17fcdab/HB1319.199.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/a/5/9/0a59c91d/HB1319.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/a/6/c/3a6c7d1a/HB1319.02.COMH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/6/4/b/f64b3f42/HB1319.376.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/7/8/6/6786986c/HB1319.551.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/4/c/c/c4cc2150/HB1319.525.pdf