republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-389.md

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Bill	Annexation of fire protection district territory.	Provides the following with regard to certain annexations that include property within a fire protection district (district) for which the annexation ordinance was adopted on October 7, 2024, the annexed territory does not exceed 50 acres, and the annexed territory consists of vacant land and not more than one (1) residential property: (1) The annexation is effective at least 30 days after the annexation ordinance is adopted, published, and filed with state and county officials. (Under current law, with certain exceptions, an annexation of property within a district takes effect the second January 1 after the ordinance is adopted and filed with state and county officials.) (2) Exempts the municipality from provisions requiring the municipality to: (A) commence fire protection service to the annexed territory on the ordinance's effective date; and (B) notify the district within 10 days of commencing fire protection service to the annexed territory.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 389	Indiana SB 389 (2025)	bill	ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY FIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts HOMELAND SECURITY; Fire Prevention and Building Safety Regulations LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Contracts Procurements and Purchases LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally	enacted	Chris Garten Doug Miller James Buck	4	20	2	2025-01-13	2025-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/12db0451-b297-458d-9242-a72c93f8f4eb	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0389	0322e3f04ac509bf3953885ecca4139ac0ea0bd833e700da216f102a16b7de68	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 389 (2025) — Annexation of fire protection district territory.

Provides the following with regard to certain annexations that include property within a fire protection district (district) for which the annexation ordinance was adopted on October 7, 2024, the annexed territory does not exceed 50 acres, and the annexed territory consists of vacant land and not more than one (1) residential property: (1) The annexation is effective at least 30 days after the annexation ordinance is adopted, published, and filed with state and county officials. (Under current law, with certain exceptions, an annexation of property within a district takes effect the second January 1 after the ordinance is adopted and filed with state and county officials.) (2) Exempts the municipality from provisions requiring the municipality to: (A) commence fire protection service to the annexed territory on the ordinance's effective date; and (B) notify the district within 10 days of commencing fire protection service to the annexed territory.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 389 - Miller D - 3rd Reading — 89–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 389 - Buck - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Garten — primary (person)
• Doug Miller — primary (person)
• James Buck — primary (person)
• Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Authored by Senator Buck
• 2025-01-13 Senator Garten added as second author
• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-21 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 189: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-20 House sponsor: Representative Miller D
• 2025-02-20 Cosponsor: Representative VanNatter
• 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
• 2025-03-31 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 346: yeas 89, nays 3 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-02 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2025-04-02 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-16 Public Law 79 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/12db0451-b297-458d-9242-a72c93f8f4eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).