Bill Text: IN SB0324 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: State employee death benefit.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-13 - Public Law 245 [SB0324 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-SB0324-Enrolled.html

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SENATE ENROLLED ACT No. 324




     AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.

    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

    SECTION 1. IC 5-10-11-5 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 5. (a) The board shall pay a death benefit of:
         (1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in a lump sum to the surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, to the surviving children (to be shared equally) of for a state employee who dies in the line of duty before July 1, 2013; and
        (2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a state employee who dies in the line of duty after June 30, 2013.
    (b) The death benefit shall be paid in a lump sum as follows:
        (1) To the surviving spouse.
        (2) If there is no surviving spouse, to the surviving dependent children and surviving dependent stepchildren in equal shares.
For purposes of this subsection, a child or stepchild is dependent on a state employee if the state employee claimed the child or stepchild as a dependent on the federal income tax return filed by the state employee in the year before the year in which the state employee died.


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