---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees deferred compensation plan."
description: "Amends the notice requirement in the statute concerning the public employees deferred compensation plan to provide that notice to an employee of the provisions of the statute: (1) is not required to be in writing; (2) is not required to be provided to the employee with the employee's first paycheck (assumed by the statute to be a paper paycheck); and (3) must include the contact information of the plan administrator, instead of the contact information of the auditor of state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 180"
citation: "Indiana SB 180 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PENSIONS", "PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Dennis Kruse", "Greg Walker", "Martin Carbaugh"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbe54f90-14b7-4dd8-8350-bb7ce70008f1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/180"
source_hash: "363125f8f028a0f9918f4941cba461855a767a8c78b7fb40aa557afb14f78ac1"
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 180 (2020) — Public employees deferred compensation plan.

Amends the notice requirement in the statute concerning the public employees deferred compensation plan to provide that notice to an employee of the provisions of the statute: (1) is not required to be in writing; (2) is not required to be provided to the employee with the employee's first paycheck (assumed by the statute to be a paper paycheck); and (3) must include the contact information of the plan administrator, instead of the contact information of the auditor of state.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0180/versions/SB0180.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0180/versions/SB0180.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0180/versions/SB0180.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0180/versions/SB0180.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 180 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 180 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Walker
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2020-01-21** Senator Niezgodski added as third author
- **2020-01-21** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 44: yeas 46, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2020-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative Wesco
- **2020-01-27** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-18** Representative VanNatter added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 196: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-25** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-11** Public Law 5

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbe54f90-14b7-4dd8-8350-bb7ce70008f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).