2023 Regular SessionIndiana Legislature

HB1605: Public defender participation in PARF.

Legislative Summary

Public defender participation in PARF. Adds a person who serves in one of the following positions on or after January 1, 2014, to the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund (PARF): (1) The state public defender or the second highest paid staff person employed by the state public defender. (2) The executive director of the public defender council of Indiana or the second highest paid staff person employed by the public defender council of Indiana. (3) The highest paid or the second highest paid staff person employed by the Indiana public defender commission. (4) A chief public defender or chief deputy public defender. Allows staff attorneys of the prosecuting attorneys council of Indiana employed on or after January 1, 2012, to participate in PARF. Changes the name of the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund to the prosecuting attorneys and public defenders retirement fund. Provides that after a participant has contributed to PARF for 22 years, the state or county shall pay the contributions to the fund for the participant. Provides that the computation of benefits is based in part on the highest salary that was paid to the participant before separation from service. Provides that 1% shall be added to the percentage used to calculate benefits for each year of service after 22 years. Provides that a reduced annual retirement benefit equals the benefit that would be payable if the participant were 65 years of age reduced by 0.10% for each month before the participant's sixty-fifth birthday. Allows a participant to receive service credit in PARF for more than one year and less than 10 years of service received by the participant in the public employees' retirement fund under certain conditions. Provides for the calculation of an offset of PARF benefits payable to a participant from a participant's public employees' retirement fund benefits based on the concurrent service and wages the participant earned in both the public employees' retirement fund and PARF. Makes corresponding changes.

Bill History

1/19/2023
Coauthored by Representatives McNamara and Hatfield
House of Representatives
1/19/2023
Authored by Representative VanNatter
House of Representatives
1/19/2023
First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
House of Representatives
2/2/2023
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
House of Representatives
2/2/2023
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
House of Representatives
2/14/2023
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
House of Representatives
2/16/2023
Second reading: ordered engrossed
House of Representatives
2/20/2023
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 94, nays 1
House of Representatives
2/20/2023
Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman, Rogers, Glick
House of Representatives
2/21/2023
Referred to the Senate
House of Representatives
3/6/2023
First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor
Senate
3/9/2023
Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
Senate
3/13/2023
Senator Pol added as cosponsor
Senate
3/16/2023
Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
Senate

Roll Call Votes

House - Third reading
2/20/2023
94
Yea
1
Nay
1
Not Voting
4
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Engrossed(2/21/2023)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Appropriations(Senate)
Sine DiePrior Session

Documents

Amended
Bill Text3/16/2023473.0 KB
Amended
Bill Text2/14/2023439.8 KB
Amended
Bill Text2/2/2023423.2 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/19/2023246.6 KB