---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1023"
citation: "Indiana HB 1023 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "SOLID WASTE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Messmer", "Ronald Bacon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8f5e572-5cec-400b-b96a-30742702c1ec"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1023"
source_hash: "b45772a44eb8352f7068a3f8c929b1893e89aa957b899cd416544b0592a20003"
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 1023 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1023/versions/hb1023.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1023/versions/hb1023.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1023/versions/hb1023.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1023/versions/hb1023.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1023 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1023 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Pelath — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Bacon
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** Representative Zent added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Representative Pelath added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 76: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 18

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8f5e572-5cec-400b-b96a-30742702c1ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).