03/05/2025

House Bill 113

Lead Sponsors: Representative Adam Bird and Representative Johnathan Newman

Status: First hearing in House Local Government (March 5, 2025)

Description: The bill makes a number of changes to annexation law, most significantly giving the board of county commissioners the ability to approve or deny all annexations.

Specific changes are made to expedited type 2 annexations by doing the following:

• Requiring the annexed territory to remain in the township only if the township provides services to the territory.
• Reducing the maximum acreage of the territory that can be proposed for annexation from 500 acres to 200 acres.
• Increasing the amount of a contiguous boundary the municipality must share with the proposed territory from 5% to 20%.

The bill also requires the State Board of Education to transfer annexed territory to the school district that primarily serves the municipality that acquires the annexed territory. The district must permit students who previously enrolled in the district in 9th grade or higher to reenroll under the district's open enrollment policy.

In non-annexation policy, the bill also requires city managers, assistant city managers, village administrators, and assistant village administrators to file financial disclosure statements and gives school districts the authority to veto residential improvements in community reinvestment areas, similar to the authority they already have for commercial and industrial projects.

CCAO Position: No position (as of March 2025)