Indiana House Bill 1420 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: Passed on May 1 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-05-01 - Public Law 145
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Electric transmission facilities. Amends the chapter in the Indiana Code concerning electric transmission facilities as follows: (1) Specifies that the term "electric transmission facility" does not include a line installed solely for the purpose of connecting an electric generation facility to facilities owned by a public utility. (2) Repeals the definition of "local reliability electric transmission facility" and makes conforming changes. (3) Amends the provisions concerning an incumbent electric transmission owner's right of first refusal to construct, own, operate, and maintain certain electric transmission facilities, or upgrades to certain electric transmission facilities, as follows: (A) Specifies that the right of first refusal applies with respect to: (ii) the construction; or (ii) upgrades; of electric transmission facilities if the construction or upgrades have been approved through a regional transmission organization (RTO) planning process. (B) Provides that if an electric transmission facility has been approved for construction through an RTO planning process: (i) each incumbent electric transmission owner that has a right to construct, own, operate, and maintain the electric transmission facility shall give written notice to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), not later than 90 days after the construction is approved, regarding the incumbent electric transmission owner's intent to construct, own, operate, and maintain the approved electric transmission facility; and (ii) if an incumbent electric transmission owner gives notice of intent not to construct the approved electric transmission facility, another entity may seek to construct the approved electric transmission facility in accordance with the RTO planning process and the bill's provisions. (C) Provides that if an incumbent electric transmission owner gives to the IURC during a calendar year notice of its intent to construct, own, operate, and maintain an approved electric transmission facility, the incumbent electric transmission owner shall, not later than May 1 of the subsequent calendar year, provide the IURC with certain specified information. (D) Provides that an incumbent electric transmission owner that exercises its right to construct an approved electric transmission facility must, to the extent commercially practicable, use competitively bid engineering, procurement, or construction contracts that meet the specifications required by the incumbent electric transmission owner with respect to the facility.

Electric transmission facilities.

Rep. Edmond Soliday [R]	Rep. Chris Jeter [R]	Rep. Randall Frye [R]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]
Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Stacey Donato [R]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. David Niezgodski [D]

2023-04-20 - House - House - House concurred in Senate amendments (Y: 55 N: 39 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2023-04-18 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 32 N: 17 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-20 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 59 N: 39 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-01	House	Public Law 145
2023-05-01	House	Signed by the Governor
2023-04-26	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2023-04-25	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2023-04-24	House	Signed by the Speaker
2023-04-20	House	House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 470: yeas 55, nays 39
2023-04-20	House	Motion to concur filed
2023-04-18	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2023-04-18	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 438: yeas 32, nays 17
2023-04-17	Senate	Senators Charbonneau and Niezgodski added as cosponsors
2023-04-17	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2023-04-13	Senate	Senator Donato added as cosponsor
2023-04-13	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2023-03-13	Senate	Senator Leising added as second sponsor
2023-02-28	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities
2023-02-21	House	Referred to the Senate
2023-02-20	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 59, nays 39
2023-02-20	House	Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
2023-02-13	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2023-02-09	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2023-02-07	House	Representative Frye added as coauthor
2023-01-17	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
2023-01-17	House	Authored by Representative Soliday
2023-01-17	House	Coauthored by Representative Jeter

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#1.INTR
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#2.COMH
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#3.COMS
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#4.ENRS
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#H166
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#S438
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1420/#H470