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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pension matters."
+description: "Amends provisions regarding the surcharge rates established by the Indiana public retirement system to actuarially prefund certain postretirement benefits. Adds provisions requiring the treasurer of state to determine a surcharge amount that is to be paid into the supplemental reserve account for the state police pre-1987 and 1987 benefit systems. Provides for a thirteenth check in calendar year 2025 for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system. Makes conforming changes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1221"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1221 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS; Public Retirement System (INPRS)", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Treasurer"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Linda Rogers", "Michael Karickhoff"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d812708f-ebe4-440b-9529-37b13de6715d"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1221"
+source_hash: "879a447beb97455e2e7678235c740a6fde1a62273658d82ccd4eb28771b80913"
+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 1221 (2025) — Pension matters.
+
+Amends provisions regarding the surcharge rates established by the Indiana public retirement system to actuarially prefund certain postretirement benefits. Adds provisions requiring the treasurer of state to determine a surcharge amount that is to be paid into the supplemental reserve account for the state police pre-1987 and 1987 benefit systems. Provides for a thirteenth check in calendar year 2025 for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system. Makes conforming changes.
+
+## 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/HB1221/HB1221.05.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1221/HB1221.04.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1221/HB1221.03.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1221/HB1221.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1221 - Karickhoff — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1221 - Buchanan — **39–11** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1221 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1221 - Buchanan - 2nd Reading — **18–31** (fail) · upper
+- HB 1221 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — **46–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
+- Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
+- Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Randy Maxwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
+- Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
+- Stacey Donato — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-09** Authored by Representative Karickhoff
+- **2025-01-09** Coauthored by Representative Smaltz
+- **2025-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-13** Reassigned to Committee on Ways and Means
+- **2025-01-21** Representative VanNatter added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-27** Representative Porter added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Buchanan
+- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 86: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Senator Hunley added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Senator Rogers added as second sponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Senators Pol and Donato added as cosponsors
+- **2025-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Senator Yoder added as cosponsor
+- **2025-04-01** Senator Maxwell added as cosponsor
+- **2025-04-10** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2025-04-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
+- **2025-04-14** Amendment #1 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 413: yeas 18, nays 31 `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2025-04-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 434: yeas 46, nays 3 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-16** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-16** House dissented from Senate amendments
+- **2025-04-16** House advisors appointed: VanNatter, Genda, Harris and Moseley
+- **2025-04-16** House conferees appointed: Karickhoff and Porter
+- **2025-04-17** Senate advisors appointed: Hunley and Rogers
+- **2025-04-17** Senate conferees appointed: Buchanan and Niezgodski
+- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
+- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
+- **2025-04-23** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 540: yeas 90, nays 0
+- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-24** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 514: yeas 39, nays 11
+- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-05-06** Public Law 226 `became-law`
+- **2025-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d812708f-ebe4-440b-9529-37b13de6715d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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