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Indiana 2026

SB 10

State employee retirement benefits.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-11-11 10:11:05 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Indiana
Session
2026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
AGENCIES; Public Retirement System (INPRS), AGENCIES; State Budget Agency (SBA), LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining, Benefits, and Wages, PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS; Public Retirement System (INPRS), STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Comptroller, STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees, TASK FORCES AND COMMITTEES; Generally, TAXES; Tobacco Taxes
Introduced / first action
2025-12-08 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Requires the state to make contributions after December 31, 2026, that match, dollar for dollar, each state employee's deferred compensation contributions, not to exceed $28 per paycheck. Specifies limitations on state contributions, including the availability of biennial appropriations. Allows in certain circumstances the budget agency to suspend contributions, resume contributions, and make contributions that were missed due to suspension. Specifies a process by which portions of the funding sources for the retirement medical benefits account must be transferred to the state comptroller for the purpose of making matching contributions. Provides as a default rule that after December 31, 2026, each participant's membership in the retirement medical benefits account is terminated, participant subaccounts are forfeited, and subaccount amounts must be transferred to the state general fund. Specifies exceptions. Requires the state comptroller to transfer certain amounts from the state general fund to each participant's defined contribution plan. Specifies a time frame within which a participant in the retirement medical benefits account may elect to remain a participant. Establishes the 2027 retiree health benefit trust. Provides that the retiree health benefit trust fund will be terminated when certain conditions are met. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.)

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3

  2. Committee report: do pass, adopted

    committee-passage

  3. Representatives VanNatter, Moseley added as cosponsors

  4. First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions

    reading-1, referral-committee

  5. Referred to the House

    referral

  6. House sponsor: Representative Lopez

  7. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 117: yeas 47, nays 0

    passage, reading-3

  8. Cosponsor: Representative Jordan

  9. Amendment #1 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote

    amendment-passage

  10. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

    reading-2

  11. Senator Randolph added as coauthor

  12. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

    committee-passage

  13. Senator Doriot added as coauthor

  14. Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations

    committee-passage, referral-committee

  15. Senator Hunley added as coauthor

  16. Authored by Senators Rogers, Buchanan, Niezgodski

  17. First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor

    reading-1, referral-committee

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