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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 431: Construction of data center by foreign adversary.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 431 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Construction of data center by foreign adversary. Primary sponsor: Ed Soliday (Republican), Jean Leising (Republican), Blake Doriot (Republican), Eric Koch (Republican). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2025): Signed by the Governor.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 11

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ed SolidayPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse4
Jean LeisingPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate42
Blake DoriotPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate12
Eric KochPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate44
Scott BaldwinCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate20
Justin BuschCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate16
Gary ByrneCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate47
Spencer DeeryCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate23
Stacey DonatoCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate18
Justin MoedCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse97
Daryl SchmittCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate48
Alaina ShonkwilerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse29

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor
  2. Public Law 49
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the Speaker
  5. Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 306: yeas 49, nays 0
  6. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  7. Motion to concur filed
  8. Returned to the Senate with amendments
  9. Representative Moed added as cosponsor
  10. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 313: yeas 94, nays 0
  11. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  12. Representative Shonkwiler added as cosponsor

Showing 12 most recent of 25 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source