---
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 373"
citation: "Indiana SB 373 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PENSIONS", "INDIANA PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM (formerly PERF)", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers' Retirement Fund (TRF)", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Karen Tallian", "Woody Burton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d86c340-29d8-4ece-9683-847db9b59002"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/373"
source_hash: "3bdcf67f2b20da213e88d9fe28fc9f799b19f5a132942a1442faf75172daee65"
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 373 (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/sb0373/versions/sb0373.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0373/versions/sb0373.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0373/versions/sb0373.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0373/versions/sb0373.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0373/versions/sb0373.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 373 - Burton - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 373 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Woody Burton — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — cosponsor (person)
- Philip Boots — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Walker
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-11** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Tallian added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Senator Boots added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 110: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Burton
- **2018-01-30** Cosponsor: Representative Karickhoff
- **2018-01-30** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** 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: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Representatives Carbaugh and Taylor J added as cosponsors
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 317: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 364: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **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
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 127
- **2018-03-16** 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/8d86c340-29d8-4ece-9683-847db9b59002`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).