republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-406.md

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Bill	Survivor benefits.	Provides that if a public safety officer enters a deferred retirement option plan (DROP) for the public safety officer's respective pension plan and the public safety officer dies before the public safety officer's DROP exit date, the benefit options for the public safety officer's survivors are made similar, as applicable, to the DROP disability benefit options in: (1) the DROP applicable to the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; and (2) the DROP applicable to the 1925 police pension fund, the 1937 firefighters' pension fund, the 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis), and the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 406	Indiana SB 406 (2020)	bill	FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS INDIANA PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM (formerly PERF) LAW ENFORCEMENT Police Pensions and Benefits PENSIONS	enacted	Chris Garten Erin Houchin Philip Boots Steve Bartels	4	22	2	2020-01-13	2020-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/74068a83-be66-41d7-9d43-fe491879ba2d	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/406	58b7abb645b3e0a698ad0a440e4558f8a297d51720a9af278de7da182466cee1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 406 (2020) — Survivor benefits.

Provides that if a public safety officer enters a deferred retirement option plan (DROP) for the public safety officer's respective pension plan and the public safety officer dies before the public safety officer's DROP exit date, the benefit options for the public safety officer's survivors are made similar, as applicable, to the DROP disability benefit options in: (1) the DROP applicable to the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; and (2) the DROP applicable to the 1925 police pension fund, the 1937 firefighters' pension fund, the 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis), and 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 Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 406 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 406 - Garten - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Garten — primary (person)
• Erin Houchin — primary (person)
• Philip Boots — primary (person)
• Steve Bartels — primary (person)
• Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
• Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
• Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Victoria Spartz — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-13 Authored by Senators Garten and Boots
• 2020-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 184: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-04 House sponsor: Representative Bartels
• 2020-02-04 Senator Houchin added as third author
• 2020-02-04 Senator Brown L added as coauthor
• 2020-02-04 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-02-04 Senators Spartz and Kruse added as coauthors
• 2020-02-05 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Representative VanNatter added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-25 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-03-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 241: yeas 89, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-03 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-16 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-21 Public Law 145

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74068a83-be66-41d7-9d43-fe491879ba2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).