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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Notice of annexation outreach meetings."
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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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "SB 59"
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citation: "Indiana SB 59 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["ADVERTISEMENTS AND NOTICES", "ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "ZONING AND PLANNING"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "Daryl Schmitt", "Harold Slager", "Rick Niemeyer"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-12-08"
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last_action: "2026-02-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd7d2cd7-8031-49d2-b37e-0bb61c7e0469"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0059"
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source_hash: "94e3a35e8ed7c2385e24e4187cadb5fab1d3a806e051de9b6f0f25a3876288ba"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 59 (2026) — Notice of annexation outreach meetings.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.03.ENGS.pdf)
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2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.05.ENRH.pdf)
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3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.01.INTR.pdf)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0059/SB0059.04.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 59 - Slager - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 59 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
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- Daryl Schmitt — primary (person)
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- Harold Slager — primary (person)
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- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
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- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senator Niemeyer
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- **2026-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2026-01-12** Senator Dernulc added as second author
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- **2026-01-12** Amendment #1 (Niemeyer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2026-01-12** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2026-01-13** Cosponsors: Representatives Olthoff, Aylesworth
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- **2026-01-13** House sponsor: Representative Slager
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- **2026-01-13** Senator Schmitt added as third author
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- **2026-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 20: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2026-01-14** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 248: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2026-02-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2026-02-17** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
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- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2026-02-24** Public Law 10 `became-law`
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- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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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).
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