Indiana Senate Bill 25 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 18 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-18 - Public Law 54
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Mental health disability review panels. Establishes mental health disability review panels (review panel) for evaluation of members of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund) who have been determined to have an impairment for mental illness. Includes mental illness in the description of "occupational diseases" for purposes of determining whether a 1977 fund member has an impairment. Makes the final determination of an impairment for a mental illness provisional for two years: (1) beginning July 1, 2020, for a final determination made after December 31, 2012, and before July 1, 2020; or (2) from the date of the final determination, for a final determination made after June 30, 2020. Requires that, during that time, the 1977 fund member participate in a mental health treatment plan, at the employer's cost, and at the end of the two year period, requires the review panel to evaluate the 1977 fund member to determine if the 1977 fund member: (1) is medically able to return to duty; or (2) may continue for another two year provisional disability period. Requires that, at the end of the second provisional period, the review panel evaluate the 1977 fund member to determine if the 1977 fund member: (1) is medically able to return to duty; or (2) has a permanent impairment. Provides that the evaluations conducted by the mental health disability review panels are confidential. Provides that the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system may suspend a 1977 fund member's disability benefits if the member fails to comply with reasonable requests for information by the mental health disability review panel. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.)

Mental health disability review panels.

Sen. Philip Boots [R]	Sen. Chris Garten [R]	Sen. Karen Tallian [D]	Sen. Blake Doriot [R]
Sen. David Niezgodski [D]	Sen. J.D. Ford [D]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Randall Frye [R]
Rep. Ben Smaltz [R]	Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]	Rep. Charles Moseley [D]

2020-03-04 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 89 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 11) [PASS]
2020-02-25 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-14 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-01-08 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-18	Senate	Public Law 54
2020-03-18	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2020-03-18	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2020-03-11	House	Signed by the Speaker
2020-03-09	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2020-03-04	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 324: yeas 48, nays 0
2020-03-03	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2020-03-03	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2020-03-02	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 233: yeas 89, nays 0
2020-02-27	House	Representative Moseley added as cosponsor
2020-02-27	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2020-02-25	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-02-04	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
2020-01-15	Senate	Referred to the House
2020-01-14	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2020-01-14	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Smaltz and Steuerwald
2020-01-14	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Frye R
2020-01-14	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 49, nays 0
2020-01-13	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2020-01-09	Senate	Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
2020-01-09	Senate	Senators Doriot and Niezgodski added as coauthors
2020-01-09	Senate	Senator Garten added as second author
2020-01-09	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-01-07	Senate	Senator Tallian added as coauthor
2020-01-06	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor
2020-01-06	Senate	Authored by Senator Boots

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/25/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/0/4/0/4040bed2/SB0025.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/2/b/3/c2b3c646/SB0025.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/b/b/d/dbbd76d1/SB0025.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/f/7/1/af71b332/SB0025.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/8/f/6/a8f60a4e/SB0025.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/a/5/7/3a57d598/SB0025.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/b/b/5/cbb5095a/SB0025.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/3/c/9/e3c914dc/SB0025.04.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/a/9/b/4a9b14f5/SB0025.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/3/2/d6320285/SB0025.13_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/6/c/7/96c7e724/SB0025.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/9/2/8/7928bab8/SB0025.233_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/9/2/a/f92a2e42/SB0025.324_S.pdf