---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 75"
citation: "Indiana SB 75 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Heath VanNatter", "Jack Sandlin", "Jon Ford", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c18cb1a-b837-40a7-b636-f88a2f5ea620"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/75"
source_hash: "a776d35dba5dd35abd637c1baa87873fdde6ab2bf6b473bb7867032851e42b80"
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 75 (2018) — 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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0075/versions/sb0075.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0075/versions/sb0075.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0075/versions/sb0075.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0075/versions/sb0075.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 75 - Ford - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 75 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Alan Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Ford
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Senator Grooms added as second author
- **2018-01-08** Senator Sandlin added as third author
- **2018-01-11** Senators Bohacek and Lanane added as coauthors
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Senators Kruse and Niezgodski added as coauthors
- **2018-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 67: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-25** House sponsor: Representative VanNatter
- **2018-01-29** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Representative Frye added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-13** Representative Morrison added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-13** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 214: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 338: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **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 90
- **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/6c18cb1a-b837-40a7-b636-f88a2f5ea620`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).