SEA 431: Construction of data center by foreign adversary.
Indiana, 2025 Regular Session. Signed, April 10, 2025.
Last verified
SEA 431 at a glance
Status Signed Signed, .
No official summary is on file yet. The full text is on the legislature's page, linked below.
Construction of data center by foreign adversary. Provides that after June 30, 2025, a foreign company may not construct or cause to be constructed a data center in Indiana unless the Indiana utility regulatory commission and the Indiana economic development corporation conduct a joint study of the anticipated electricity use of the prospective data center and certify to the governor and the general assembly that the electricity estimated to be used by the data center will be self generated and will not affect the load supply of the regional transmission organizations whose service territory includes Indiana.
Measure Bill.
Number SEA 431, as its own legislature prints it. The record files it under S.B. 431, which is the form this page's address and every export use. The two forms are the same measure. The record normalizes a number so a reader can search one way across fifty states; the legislature's own form is the one printed here.
Sponsors Eric Koch (R); Blake Doriot (R); Jean Leising (R); Daryl Schmitt (R); Scott Baldwin (R); Spencer Deery (R); Stacey Donato (R); Gary Byrne (R); Justin Busch (R); Edmond Soliday (R); Alaina Shonkwiler (R); Justin Moed (D)
Subjects None on file. The legislature's own list.
Official page iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/431/details. Found through LegiScan (bill 1915201), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.
What happened, and when
- April 10, 2025 Signed
S.B. 431 was signed. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Signed by the Governor.
- March 26, 2025 Passed second chamber
S.B. 431 passed the House. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Returned to the Senate with amendments.
- March 20, 2025 In committee
S.B. 431 went to committee in the House. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
- March 3, 2025 In committee
S.B. 431 went to committee in the House. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications.
- February 5, 2025 Passed first chamber
S.B. 431 passed the Senate. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Referred to the House.
- January 30, 2025 In committee
S.B. 431 went to committee in the Senate. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Committee report: do pass, adopted.
- January 13, 2025 In committee
S.B. 431 went to committee in the Senate. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities.
- January 13, 2025 Introduced
S.B. 431 was introduced in the Senate. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities.
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