republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/hb-1205.md

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Bill	Uniform trust decanting act and trustee duties.	Allows a trustee of an irrevocable trust to appoint a successor trustee or multiple trustees. Provides that a trustee's power to appoint a successor trustee includes the power to allocate trustee powers to one or more trustees. Enacts the uniform trust decanting act. Creates a definition of the decanting power to include a power by a trustee to make limited modifications to an irrevocable trust, including an asset transfer to a new trust. Requires that a modification be consistent with a settlor's or charitable organization's intent. Permits the trustee of an existing trust to make modifications to or distributions from an existing trust for the benefit of a disabled beneficiary. Prohibits a trustee from being required to decant. Requires advanced notice to all qualified beneficiaries. Provides that the decanting power of an authorized fiduciary is not precluded by certain terms. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the Probate Code Commission.)	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	HB 1205	Indiana HB 1205 (2022)	bill	PROBATE COURTS AND PROCEEDINGS TRUSTS AND FIDUCIARIES	enacted	Aaron Freeman Eric Koch John Young	4	19	1	2022-01-06	2022-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/06c8dd18-a2c9-4af3-a4b6-7de6db9f9ca6	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1205	c7e4f8baf7e838a1976262ce82bd0046ce95c644db06b6e55901792d48313853	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1205 (2022) — Uniform trust decanting act and trustee duties.

Allows a trustee of an irrevocable trust to appoint a successor trustee or multiple trustees. Provides that a trustee's power to appoint a successor trustee includes the power to allocate trustee powers to one or more trustees. Enacts the uniform trust decanting act. Creates a definition of the decanting power to include a power by a trustee to make limited modifications to an irrevocable trust, including an asset transfer to a new trust. Requires that a modification be consistent with a settlor's or charitable organization's intent. Permits the trustee of an existing trust to make modifications to or distributions from an existing trust for the benefit of a disabled beneficiary. Prohibits a trustee from being required to decant. Requires advanced notice to all qualified beneficiaries. Provides that the decanting power of an authorized fiduciary is not precluded by certain terms. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the Probate Code Commission.)

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 1205 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• John Young — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-06 Authored by Representative Young J
• 2022-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-18 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-20 Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman and Koch
• 2022-01-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 50: yeas 84, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-21 Referred to the Senate
• 2022-02-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-14 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 201: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-16 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-21 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-02-22 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 246: yeas 92, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2022-02-24 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-02-24 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-15 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-18 Public Law 161

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06c8dd18-a2c9-4af3-a4b6-7de6db9f9ca6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).