---
type: "Bill"
title: "School resource officers."
description: "Adds a school resource officer to the definition of \"public safety officer\" as it relates to the public employee benefits special death benefit fund (fund). Provides that a school resource officer qualifies for the fund if the school resource officer is not otherwise entitled to a line of duty benefit under the 1925 police pension fund, 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis), or the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1151"
citation: "Indiana HB 1151 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC SAFETY", "SCHOOLS", "Officers and Employees (other than teachers)", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Peggy Mayfield", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fba15c53-928b-4c20-9c46-655730cd4cda"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1151"
source_hash: "36073e9f4a006efc7697c2d2ddf2f77496be386a005d6c1211f66569c1e69317"
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 HB 1151 (2020) — School resource officers.

Adds a school resource officer to the definition of "public safety officer" as it relates to the public employee benefits special death benefit fund (fund). Provides that a school resource officer qualifies for the fund if the school resource officer is not otherwise entitled to a line of duty benefit under the 1925 police pension fund, 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis), or the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1151/versions/HB1151.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1151/versions/HB1151.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1151/versions/HB1151.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1151/versions/HB1151.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1151 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1151 - Mayfield - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Mayfield
- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Representative Frye added as coauthor
- **2020-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Representatives Klinker and Moseley added as coauthors
- **2020-01-16** Amendment #2 (Wright) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2020-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 37: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
- **2020-01-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-27** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2020-03-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** Senator Perfect added as second sponsor
- **2020-03-02** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-03-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-04** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 41

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fba15c53-928b-4c20-9c46-655730cd4cda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).