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

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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-Amended.html

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Reprinted

January 25, 2013

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SENATE BILL No. 324

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DIGEST OF SB 324 (Updated January 24, 2013 2:12 pm - DI 44)

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. 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.

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Miller Pete , Charbonneau , Arnold J, Buck

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    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.

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Reprinted

January 25, 2013

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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SENATE BILL No. 324

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

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

SOURCE: IC 5-10-11-5; (13)SB0324.2.1. -->     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 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.