HB 1605 Indiana House · 2023 Regular Session

Public defender participation in PARF.

Summary
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 status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2023
House Passage
Feb 2023
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 19, 2023 Last action Mar 16, 2023
Floor votes · House Feb 20, 2023

How they voted

881
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 94
Feb 20, 2023
D Democratic26
22 Yea 4
84% Yea
I Independent1
1 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican67
65 Yea 1 Nay 1
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Mar 16, 2023
Upper · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
upper
Feb 20, 2023
Lower · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 94, nays 1
lower
Feb 14, 2023
Lower · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
lower
Feb 2, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
lower
Feb 2, 2023
Lower · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
lower
4 primary · 4 co-sponsors

Sponsors