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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Town of Cumberland."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1131"
citation: "Indiana HB 1131 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF)", "CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTIES; Hancock", "COUNTIES; Marion", "FIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts", "TAXES; Tax Levies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doug Miller", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcadb57b-f011-4ca3-b6c1-a9b48ba26e45"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1131"
source_hash: "68ea5716eaad69ac09ac5b32b2b0bf4a1c215e6a3605bae970285a93b9f9334e"
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 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](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1131/HB1131.06.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1131/HB1131.05.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1131/HB1131.04.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1131/HB1131.01.INTR.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcadb57b-f011-4ca3-b6c1-a9b48ba26e45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).