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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County police force pension trust and trust fund."
+description: "Requires in a county other than Marion County, that the county police department or a designee of the county police department make an annual presentation regarding the county police force pension trust and trust fund to the county council."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 144"
+citation: "Indiana SB 144 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Employees", "PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS; Public Retirement System (INPRS)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Rick Niemeyer", "Vaneta Becker", "Wendy McNamara"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-04-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca11c166-26ad-42d6-93eb-06e5864579fa"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0144"
+source_hash: "50aaf3926bd305792ed22f9c3e03791c9c2d886f8eaa8e353c5f4e399d3e3c32"
+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 144 (2025) — County police force pension trust and trust fund.
+
+Requires in a county other than Marion County, that the county police department or a designee of the county police department make an annual presentation regarding the county police force pension trust and trust fund to the county council.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 144 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 144 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James Tomes — primary (person)
+- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
+- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
+- Timothy O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senators Becker and Tomes
+- **2025-01-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-21** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 24: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-27** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
+- **2025-01-28** Senator Niemeyer added as third author
+- **2025-01-28** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2025-01-28** Senator Dernulc added as coauthor
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-20** Representative O'Brien added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-03** Public Law 21 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca11c166-26ad-42d6-93eb-06e5864579fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+