---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military benefits and services poster."
description: "Requires that the Indiana department of labor consult with the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services poster. Provides that the veterans' benefits and services poster must contain certain information. Requires that Indiana employers with more than 50 full-time employees (or their equivalent) display the veterans' benefits and services poster in a conspicuous place."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Indiana SB 15 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Labor (DOL)", "AGENCIES; Department of Veteran's Affairs (DVA)", "ARMED FORCES; Benefits", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Generally", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Michael Young", "Steve Bartels", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75c14ab9-9d2c-4569-ab1c-aa323e3af087"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0015"
source_hash: "f68178c7288b8c04c20355317a5459b2257ebfc0ca6ba5f3005018d75208b719"
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 15 (2024) — Military benefits and services poster.

Requires that the Indiana department of labor consult with the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services poster. Provides that the veterans' benefits and services poster must contain certain information. Requires that Indiana employers with more than 50 full-time employees (or their equivalent) display the veterans' benefits and services poster in a conspicuous place.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0015/SB0015.05.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0015/SB0015.06.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0015/SB0015.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0015/SB0015.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 15 - Tomes — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 15 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 15 - Bartels — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 15 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Cyndi Carrasco — coauthor (person)
- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- David Vinzant — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Hostettler — cosponsor (person)
- Renee Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Tomes
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and The Military `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2024-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Senators Doriot and Raatz added as coauthors
- **2024-01-18** Senator Young M added as third author
- **2024-01-18** Senator Vinzant added as coauthor
- **2024-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2024-01-22** Senator Pol added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Senator Dernulc added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Cosponsors: Representatives Judy, Pack R, Hostettler
- **2024-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Bartels
- **2024-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 12: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-22** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2024-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2024-01-24** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Representative Judy removed as cosponsor
- **2024-02-19** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2024-02-19** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Representative Hamilton added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Amendment #1 (Bartels) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** House conferees appointed: Bartels and Pack
- **2024-03-05** House advisors appointed: Hostettler, Lucas, Haggard and Hamilton
- **2024-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Niezgodski and Glick
- **2024-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Tomes and Vinzant
- **2024-03-05** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2024-03-05** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2024-03-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-05** Senator Carrasco added as coauthor
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 305: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 336: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-13** Public Law 96 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75c14ab9-9d2c-4569-ab1c-aa323e3af087`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).