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Bill Public safety officer death benefits. Increases, from $150,000 to $225,000, the special death benefit for certain public safety officers, certain motor carrier inspectors, certain special police employees, members of the 1925 police pension fund, the 1937 firefighters' pension fund, the 1953 police pension fund, and the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund who die in the line of duty after June 30, 2020. Provides that the board shall determine contributions and contribution rates for individual employers or for a group of employers necessary to adequately maintain the special death benefit fund. Provides that, for certain police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services providers, the cost of the coverage is in addition to the contribution determined by the board. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2020 HB 1063 Indiana HB 1063 (2020)
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FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Police Pensions and Benefits
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
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Blake Doriot
Chuck Goodrich
Philip Boots
4 29 2 2020-01-16 2020-03-30 openstates ocd-bill/b579e744-0b7d-4c79-8162-714143f4d13a http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1063 a2e7cdb4be6d58b7adafedfa396699e71020102603777921ad3c60ca4d1d037e 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana HB 1063 (2020) — Public safety officer death benefits.

Increases, from $150,000 to $225,000, the special death benefit for certain public safety officers, certain motor carrier inspectors, certain special police employees, members of the 1925 police pension fund, the 1937 firefighters' pension fund, the 1953 police pension fund, and the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund who die in the line of duty after June 30, 2020. Provides that the board shall determine contributions and contribution rates for individual employers or for a group of employers necessary to adequately maintain the special death benefit fund. Provides that, for certain police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services providers, the cost of the coverage is in addition to the contribution determined by the board.

Version chain

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

  1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • HB 1063 - Goodrich - 3rd Reading — 900 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1063 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — 500 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Blake Doriot — primary (person)
  • Chuck Goodrich — primary (person)
  • Philip Boots — primary (person)
  • Chris Garten — cosponsor (person)
  • David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
  • Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
  • Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
  • J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
  • Jack Sandlin — cosponsor (person)
  • James Buck — cosponsor (person)
  • Jon Ford — cosponsor (person)
  • Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
  • Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
  • Victoria Spartz — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-16 Authored by Representative Goodrich
  • 2020-01-16 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2020-01-23 Representatives VanNatter and Harris added as coauthors
  • 2020-01-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2020-01-27 Representative Frye added as coauthor
  • 2020-01-29 Amendment #1 (Goodin) failed; Roll Call 116: yeas 37, nays 57 amendment-failure
  • 2020-01-29 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-01-30 Senate sponsor: Senator Doriot
  • 2020-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 148: yeas 90, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2020-01-31 Referred to the Senate
  • 2020-02-17 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2020-02-24 Senator Boots added as second sponsor
  • 2020-02-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2020-02-27 Senators Spartz, Garten, Ford J.D. added as cosponsors
  • 2020-02-27 Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
  • 2020-03-02 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-03-02 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
  • 2020-03-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 281: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2020-03-03 Senator Buck added as cosponsor
  • 2020-03-03 Senator Ford Jon added as cosponsor
  • 2020-03-03 Senator Sandlin added as cosponsor
  • 2020-03-04 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
  • 2020-03-04 Motion to concur filed
  • 2020-03-05 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 318: yeas 82, nays 0 amendment-failure
  • 2020-03-10 Signed by the Speaker
  • 2020-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2020-03-30 Public Law 99

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b579e744-0b7d-4c79-8162-714143f4d13a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).