republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1131.md

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Bill	Town of Cumberland.	Provides that on January 1, 2027, the town of Cumberland is an excluded city and no longer part of the consolidated city. Requires the town legislative body and the legislative body of the consolidated city and county to take any steps necessary to transition the town to an excluded city. Requires the department of local government finance to adjust property tax levies, rates, budgets, and distributive shares of local units of local government as necessary to account for the town becoming an excluded city. Provides that, after December 31, 2026, any part of the town that is included in a fire protection district on December 31, 2026, that is located in the county containing the consolidated city, shall continue to be included in the fire protection district. Provides that, after December 31, 2026, the town is liable for debt service owed by the consolidated city on December 31, 2026, in the same ratio as the assessed valuation of the property in the town bears to the assessed valuation of all property included in the consolidated city until the particular debt service is satisfied.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1131	Indiana HB 1131 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF) CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally COUNTIES; Hancock COUNTIES; Marion FIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts TAXES; Tax Levies	enacted	Doug Miller Michael Crider	4	22	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/bcadb57b-f011-4ca3-b6c1-a9b48ba26e45	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1131	68ea5716eaad69ac09ac5b32b2b0bf4a1c215e6a3605bae970285a93b9f9334e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1131 (2025) — Town of Cumberland.

Provides that on January 1, 2027, the town of Cumberland is an excluded city and no longer part of the consolidated city. Requires the town legislative body and the legislative body of the consolidated city and county to take any steps necessary to transition the town to an excluded city. Requires the department of local government finance to adjust property tax levies, rates, budgets, and distributive shares of local units of local government as necessary to account for the town becoming an excluded city. Provides that, after December 31, 2026, any part of the town that is included in a fire protection district on December 31, 2026, that is located in the county containing the consolidated city, shall continue to be included in the fire protection district. Provides that, after December 31, 2026, the town is liable for debt service owed by the consolidated city on December 31, 2026, in the same ratio as the assessed valuation of the property in the town bears to the assessed valuation of all property included in the consolidated city until the particular debt service is satisfied.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1131 - Crider - 3rd Reading — 43–4 (pass) · upper
• HB 1131 - Miller D - 3rd Reading — 89–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Doug Miller — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Dave Heine — coauthor (person)
• Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
• Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Coauthored by Representatives Pressel and Heine
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Authored by Representative Miller D
• 2025-01-28 Recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
• 2025-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Representative Gore added as coauthor
• 2025-02-06 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-12 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-11 Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
• 2025-02-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 89, nays 3 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 264: yeas 43, nays 4 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-10 Public Law 52 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bcadb57b-f011-4ca3-b6c1-a9b48ba26e45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).