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type: "Bill"
title: "Notice of annexation outreach meetings."
description: "Requires a municipality to mail notice of the date, time, and location of annexation outreach meetings to: (1) the county executive of each county; (2) the township executive of each township; and (3) any plan commission; in which the annexation territory is located."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "Indiana SB 59 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISEMENTS AND NOTICES", "ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "ZONING AND PLANNING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "Daryl Schmitt", "Harold Slager", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd7d2cd7-8031-49d2-b37e-0bb61c7e0469"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0059"
source_hash: "94e3a35e8ed7c2385e24e4187cadb5fab1d3a806e051de9b6f0f25a3876288ba"
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 59 (2026) — Notice of annexation outreach meetings.
Requires a municipality to mail notice of the date, time, and location of annexation outreach meetings to: (1) the county executive of each county; (2) the township executive of each township; and (3) any plan commission; in which the annexation territory is located.
## 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/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.04.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 59 - Slager - 3rd Reading — **890** (pass) · lower
- SB 59 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
- Daryl Schmitt — primary (person)
- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senator Niemeyer
- **2026-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-12** Senator Dernulc added as second author
- **2026-01-12** Amendment #1 (Niemeyer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-12** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-13** Cosponsors: Representatives Olthoff, Aylesworth
- **2026-01-13** House sponsor: Representative Slager
- **2026-01-13** Senator Schmitt added as third author
- **2026-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 20: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 248: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-17** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 10 `became-law`
- **2026-02-24** 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/fd7d2cd7-8031-49d2-b37e-0bb61c7e0469`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).