Bill Text: IN SB0324 | 2013 | Regular Session | Engrossed
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-Engrossed.html
Citations Affected: IC 5-10.
Synopsis: State employee death benefit. Increases from $50,000 to
$100,000 the death benefit for a state employee who dies in the line of
duty. Exempts members of the general assembly from the benefit
increase. Adds stepchildren to the survivors entitled to receive a death
benefit for a state employee who dies of the line of duty. Requires that
the children and stepchildren receiving a death benefit be dependent on
the state employee who died in the line of duty. Provides that 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.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
(HOUSE SPONSOR _ BAIRD)
January 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor.
January 17, 2013, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
January 24, 2013, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
January 25, 2013, engrossed.
January 28, 2013, read third time, passed. Yeas 47, nays 2.
February 26, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions.
March 7, 2013, reported _ Do Pass.
March 11, 2013, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
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(1) is not a member of the general assembly and dies in the line of duty before July 1, 2013; or
(2) is a member of the general assembly and dies in the line of duty.
The board shall pay a death benefit of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
(b) This subsection applies to a state employee who is not a member of the general assembly and dies in the line of duty after June 30, 2013. The board shall pay a death benefit of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(c) 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 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.
