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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighter safety."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 258"
citation: "Indiana SB 258 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS", "PUBLIC SAFETY", "FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Worker's Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "James Tomes", "Michael Crider", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84d9edea-dbbc-4508-9659-cdb2c9380880"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/258"
source_hash: "ff97c30c6d223ee939fbda461f75e3f8653422120907646dde93711e68f23ca2"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0258/versions/SB0258.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0258/versions/SB0258.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0258/versions/SB0258.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0258/versions/SB0258.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0258/versions/SB0258.02.COMS)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84d9edea-dbbc-4508-9659-cdb2c9380880`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).