---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning pensions."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning pensions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 80"
citation: "Indiana SB 80 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits", "INDIANA PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM (formerly PERF)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Martin Carbaugh", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90ae5282-e0d7-4f5d-98fd-b4403944ff59"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/80"
source_hash: "a5648e150a227cc7744f7e59489367a5a7c43535dba1d17e561b34e15b36989e"
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 80 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning pensions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0080/versions/sb0080.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0080/versions/sb0080.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0080/versions/sb0080.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0080/versions/sb0080.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 80 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 80 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Boots
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 17: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2017-01-23** Senator Niezgodski added as third author
- **2017-01-23** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-24** Senator Eckerty added as coauthor
- **2017-01-25** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Taylor J added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Representative Frye added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 304: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 47
- **2017-04-13** 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/90ae5282-e0d7-4f5d-98fd-b4403944ff59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).