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type: "Bill"
title: "Midwest continental divide commission."
description: "Allows an eligible county and city to establish by ordinance, a Midwest continental divide commission and district for the purpose of acquiring, developing, funding, constructing, equipping, and owning economic improvement projects in or serving the district. Amends an appropriation made in P.L.201-2023 to the northern Indiana regional economic development authority to allow funds to be used to support and fund the commission and the commission's projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 468"
citation: "Indiana SB 468 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Newly Created", "CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "CONSTRUCTION", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "NATIVE AMERICANS", "PROPERTY; Leases", "STATE GOVERNMENT; State and Local Funding", "ZONING AND PLANNING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Jake Teshka", "Linda Rogers", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6c2bdca-379e-4dc0-9c16-4511eb04515f"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0468"
source_hash: "264f589aa959cf37dc46b2b5a3f509e7f1e395a711bac2f5ed760064bd90222e"
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 468 (2025) — Midwest continental divide commission.
Allows an eligible county and city to establish by ordinance, a Midwest continental divide commission and district for the purpose of acquiring, developing, funding, constructing, equipping, and owning economic improvement projects in or serving the district. Amends an appropriation made in P.L.201-2023 to the northern Indiana regional economic development authority to allow funds to be used to support and fund the commission and the commission's projects.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0468/SB0468.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0468/SB0468.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0468/SB0468.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0468/SB0468.04.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 468 - Niezgodski - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 468 - Teshka - 3rd Reading — **940** (pass) · lower
- SB 468 - Niezgodski — **384** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Jake Teshka — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Niezgodski
- **2025-01-23** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** Senators Pol and Randolph added as coauthors
- **2025-01-23** Senator Rogers added as third author
- **2025-01-23** Senator Mishler added as second author
- **2025-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-06** Amendment #3 (Niezgodski) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Cosponsors: Representatives DeVon and Bauer
- **2025-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 93: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** House sponsor: Representative Teshka
- **2025-02-11** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 406: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-17** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 474: yeas 38, nays 4
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 141 `became-law`
- **2025-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6c2bdca-379e-4dc0-9c16-4511eb04515f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).