---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning pensions."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning pensions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1537"
citation: "Indiana HB 1537 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INDIANA PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM (formerly PERF)", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers' Retirement Fund (TRF)", "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Alcohol and Tobacco Commission", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "State Police", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doug Gutwein", "Philip Boots", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ccf646a4-df9d-4fd2-aaae-1e895d7c5228"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1537"
source_hash: "6e6f4c7a8bd5ff61145144f5c16431994bbfd0b38a29372c195841aa938b2392"
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 1537 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning pensions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1537/versions/hb1537.06.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1537/versions/hb1537.02.comh)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1537/versions/hb1537.05.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1537/versions/hb1537.03.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1537/versions/hb1537.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1537/versions/hb1537.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1537 - Gutwein - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1537 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Doug Gutwein — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — coauthor (person)
- Woody Burton — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** Coauthored by Representatives Burton and GiaQuinta
- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Gutwein
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-31** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 146: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Senator Tallian added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 382: yeas 46, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Senator Glick added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 485: yeas 82, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Public Law 92
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ccf646a4-df9d-4fd2-aaae-1e895d7c5228`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).