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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Perpetual care fund deposits for columbariums."
+description: "Exempts certain veteran focused nonprofit cemeteries from certain deposit and trustee requirements with respect to a perpetual care fund."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 520"
+citation: "Indiana SB 520 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; Charitable Organizations and Nonprofits", "DEATH AND DECEASED; Cemeteries and Mausoleums", "DEATH AND DECEASED; Generally", "VETERANS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Justin Busch", "Martin Carbaugh"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-16"
+last_action: "2025-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19743f25-4a50-490d-9b6e-278595598f00"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0520"
+source_hash: "b33d25994252d6cb21ea8cb31e2fd1ce31c0d2291093dd11810e1d245f5472a8"
+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 520 (2025) — Perpetual care fund deposits for columbariums.
+
+Exempts certain veteran focused nonprofit cemeteries from certain deposit and trustee requirements with respect to a perpetual care fund.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0520/SB0520.04.ENGH.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0520/SB0520.05.ENRH.pdf)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0520/SB0520.01.INTR.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0520/SB0520.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 520 - Busch - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 520 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 520 - Busch — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James Tomes — primary (person)
+- Justin Busch — primary (person)
+- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
+- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
+- David Abbott — cosponsor (person)
+- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
+- Renee Pack — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16** Authored by Senator Busch
+- **2025-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and The Military `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-23** Senator Tomes added as second author
+- **2025-01-23** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
+- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 37: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **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** Representative Abbott added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-25** Amendment #1 (Carbaugh) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-25** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-27** Representatives Judy and Pack R added as cosponsors
+- **2025-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 322: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-03** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 338: yeas 48, nays 0
+- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-16** Public Law 82 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19743f25-4a50-490d-9b6e-278595598f00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+