---
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).