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type: "Bill"
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title: "Survivor benefits."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 406"
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citation: "Indiana SB 406 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "INDIANA PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEM (formerly PERF)", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits", "PENSIONS"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Erin Houchin", "Philip Boots", "Steve Bartels"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-01-13"
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last_action: "2020-03-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74068a83-be66-41d7-9d43-fe491879ba2d"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/406"
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source_hash: "58b7abb645b3e0a698ad0a440e4558f8a297d51720a9af278de7da182466cee1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 406 (2020) — Survivor benefits.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0406/versions/SB0406.04.ENRH)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0406/versions/SB0406.01.INTR)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0406/versions/SB0406.02.COMS)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0406/versions/SB0406.03.COMH)
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## Votes
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- SB 406 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 406 - Garten - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Chris Garten — primary (person)
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- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
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- Philip Boots — primary (person)
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- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
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- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
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- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
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- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Victoria Spartz — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-13** Authored by Senators Garten and Boots
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- **2020-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 184: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
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- **2020-02-04** House sponsor: Representative Bartels
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- **2020-02-04** Senator Houchin added as third author
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- **2020-02-04** Senator Brown L added as coauthor
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- **2020-02-04** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2020-02-04** Senators Spartz and Kruse added as coauthors
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- **2020-02-05** Referred to the House
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- **2020-02-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-18** Representative VanNatter added as cosponsor
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- **2020-02-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 241: yeas 89, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
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- **2020-03-03** Returned to the Senate without amendments
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- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
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- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2020-03-21** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-03-21** Public Law 145
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74068a83-be66-41d7-9d43-fe491879ba2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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