---
type: "Bill"
title: "County police force pension trust and trust fund."
description: "Requires in a county other than Marion County, that the county police department or a designee of the county police department make an annual presentation regarding the county police force pension trust and trust fund to the county council."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Indiana SB 144 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Employees", "PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS; Public Retirement System (INPRS)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Rick Niemeyer", "Vaneta Becker", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca11c166-26ad-42d6-93eb-06e5864579fa"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0144"
source_hash: "50aaf3926bd305792ed22f9c3e03791c9c2d886f8eaa8e353c5f4e399d3e3c32"
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 144 (2025) — County police force pension trust and trust fund.

Requires in a county other than Marion County, that the county police department or a designee of the county police department make an annual presentation regarding the county police force pension trust and trust fund to the county council.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0144/SB0144.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 144 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 144 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
- Timothy O'Brien — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senators Becker and Tomes
- **2025-01-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 24: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2025-01-28** Senator Niemeyer added as third author
- **2025-01-28** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-01-28** Senator Dernulc added as coauthor
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-20** Representative O'Brien added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-03** Public Law 21 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca11c166-26ad-42d6-93eb-06e5864579fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).