---
type: "Bill"
title: "Annexation."
description: "Provides that annexation territory that is divided by railroad tracks satisfies contiguity requirements, if the territory on at least one side of the railroad tracks is contiguous to the municipality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1058"
citation: "Indiana HB 1058 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "TRANSPORTATION; Railroads", "Trains", "and Stations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Clark", "Gregory Steuerwald"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-05"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/719a7773-a3eb-4cf2-9a46-312eae3b89ff"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1058"
source_hash: "0ab19737555c1045993b943822defadd31ace659c67f4e70b7e43852619e7ce7"
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 HB 1058 (2026) — Annexation.

Provides that annexation territory that is divided by railroad tracks satisfies contiguity requirements, if the territory on at least one side of the railroad tracks is contiguous to the municipality.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1058/HB1058.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1058/HB1058.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1058/HB1058.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1058/HB1058.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1058 - Clark - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1058 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brett Clark — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Dave Hall — coauthor (person)
- Jennifer Meltzer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-12-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-05** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2026-01-05** Representative Meltzer added as coauthor
- **2026-01-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-12** Representative Hall added as coauthor
- **2026-01-12** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 34: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-12** Senate sponsor: Senator Clark
- **2026-01-13** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-01-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 150: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 22 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/719a7773-a3eb-4cf2-9a46-312eae3b89ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).