republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/hb-1063.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public safety officer death benefits."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1063"
citation: "Indiana HB 1063 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits", "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Chuck Goodrich", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b579e744-0b7d-4c79-8162-714143f4d13a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1063"
source_hash: "a2e7cdb4be6d58b7adafedfa396699e71020102603777921ad3c60ca4d1d037e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1063/versions/HB1063.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1063/versions/HB1063.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1063/versions/HB1063.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1063/versions/HB1063.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1063 - Goodrich - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1063 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b579e744-0b7d-4c79-8162-714143f4d13a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).