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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Annexation of property for an industrial park."
+description: "Allows the city of Alexandria in Madison County to annex noncontiguous property for use as an industrial park."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 491"
+citation: "Indiana SB 491 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "COUNTIES; Madison", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Rowray", "Mike Gaskill", "Rick Niemeyer"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-14"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0704f56c-d895-4315-8d59-7184d71da2e9"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0491"
+source_hash: "621eb229820d6f27d476006c45449381b75d06a4ec945453e8865fc716037786"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 491 (2025) — Annexation of property for an industrial park.
+
+Allows the city of Alexandria in Madison County to annex noncontiguous property for use as an industrial park.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0491/SB0491.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0491/SB0491.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0491/SB0491.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0491/SB0491.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 491 - Rowray - 3rd Reading — **90–3** (pass) · lower
+- SB 491 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elizabeth Rowray — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
+- Kyle Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Authored by Senator Gaskill
+- **2025-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
+- **2025-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative Pierce K
+- **2025-02-21** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 206: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Rowray
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01** Placed back on second reading
+- **2025-04-07** Reread second time: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 407: yeas 90, nays 3 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-22** Public Law 103 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0704f56c-d895-4315-8d59-7184d71da2e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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