republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-258.md

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Bill	Firefighter safety.	Requires the board of firefighting personnel standards and education to establish best practices to improve safety and health outcomes for firefighters. Establishes the best practices fund for the purpose of providing matching grants to political subdivisions and volunteer fire departments to purchase equipment and other gear to implement best practices. Provides that the worker's compensation rating bureau of Indiana may recommend a premium or rate discount toward worker's compensation insurance to political subdivisions and volunteer fire departments that implement best practices.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 258	Indiana SB 258 (2020)	bill	FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS PUBLIC SAFETY FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Worker's Compensation	enacted	Eric Koch James Tomes Michael Crider Randall Frye	5	34	2	2020-01-09	2020-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/84d9edea-dbbc-4508-9659-cdb2c9380880	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/258	ff97c30c6d223ee939fbda461f75e3f8653422120907646dde93711e68f23ca2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 258 (2020) — Firefighter safety.

Requires the board of firefighting personnel standards and education to establish best practices to improve safety and health outcomes for firefighters. Establishes the best practices fund for the purpose of providing matching grants to political subdivisions and volunteer fire departments to purchase equipment and other gear to implement best practices. Provides that the worker's compensation rating bureau of Indiana may recommend a premium or rate discount toward worker's compensation insurance to political subdivisions and volunteer fire departments that implement best practices.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 258 - Frye - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 258 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• James Tomes — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Randall Frye — primary (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
• Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-09 Authored by Senator Koch
• 2020-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Senator Crider added as second author
• 2020-01-28 Senator Tomes added as third author
• 2020-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-02-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 120: yeas 47, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-03 House sponsor: Representative Frye R
• 2020-02-04 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-18 Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-18 Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-20 Amendment #1 (Frye R) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2020-02-20 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-20 Representative Lauer added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198: yeas 95, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-25 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-03 Motion to dissent filed
• 2020-03-03 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-03 Senate conferees appointed: Koch and Mrvan
• 2020-03-03 Senate advisors appointed: Crider and Melton
• 2020-03-04 House conferees appointed: Frye R and Klinker
• 2020-03-04 House advisors appointed: Bartels, Barrett and Chyung
• 2020-03-09 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2020-03-09 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2020-03-10 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 351: yeas 89, nays 0
• 2020-03-10 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 353: yeas 50, nays 0
• 2020-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-16 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-18 Public Law 72

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84d9edea-dbbc-4508-9659-cdb2c9380880. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).