HB1473: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: House Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: house
• Description: Pocket annexations.

Legislators

Actions (10 total)

• Feb 20, 2025, 4:14 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
• Feb 11, 2025, 5:21 AM: Referred to the Senate
• Feb 10, 2025, 10:15 AM: Senate sponsor: Senator Walker K
• Feb 10, 2025, 10:13 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 115: yeas 89, nays 1
• Feb 10, 2025, 9:26 AM: Representative Jeter added as coauthor
• Feb 10, 2025, 9:25 AM: Representative Lehman added as coauthor
• Feb 6, 2025, 6:21 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
• Feb 4, 2025, 8:37 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Jan 21, 2025, 8:37 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
• Jan 21, 2025, 8:37 AM: Authored by Representative Steuerwald

Digest

Allows a municipality to annex unincorporated property that becomes completely surrounded by the municipality after June 30, 2025. Requires the municipality to: (1) adopt an annexation fiscal plan; (2) provide notice to landowners in the territory; and (3) hold a public hearing. Provides that the following apply in a pocket annexation: (1) The annexation territory may be divided by railroad tracks. (2) The annexation territory satisfies the contiguity requirements, if the territory on at least one side of the railroad tracks is contiguous to the municipality.