---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "Indiana SB 119 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Jon Ford", "Karen Tallian", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e2d76f5-22d8-48e1-863c-720a92ebf273"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/119"
source_hash: "9fe9ea33e7e29e6ed4da9eea7256f48a1ac6fd23d96249d00a0ac7588048cb9b"
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 119 (2018) — 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/2018/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 119 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 119 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Grooms
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-04** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 8: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-09** House sponsor: Representative Clere
- **2018-01-09** Cosponsor: Representative Stemler
- **2018-01-09** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2018-01-10** Senator Tallian added as third author
- **2018-01-10** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-10** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2018-01-12** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 302: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 91
- **2018-03-15** 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/4e2d76f5-22d8-48e1-863c-720a92ebf273`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).