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Read. Follow. Verify.Indiana allows courts to assign or garnish public employee pension benefits in divorce decrees
Last action · January 8, 2026: First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and PensionsSponsor: Philip GiaQuinta
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What This Bill Proposed
Indiana House Bill 1420 permits a court presiding over a marriage dissolution action to order the or of monthly benefits from the public employees' retirement fund to another party in the case, effective July 1, 2026.
Divorcing spouses of public employees may receive direct pension benefit payments through court-ordered s or s, changing how retirement assets are divided during proceedings.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
members of the public employees' retirement fund
Their monthly pension benefits may be subject to court-ordered assignment, garnishment, and transfer to another party during a marriage dissolution action.
board
The board is required to pay the amounts ordered by the court to the specified parties at the time the member is or was entitled to receive them.
Key Facts
- Courts may order the assignment of all or part of a public employee pension member's monthly benefits to another party during a marriage dissolution action.
- Courts may order the garnishment and transfer of all or part of a member's monthly benefits to another party in a dissolution decree.
- The public employees' retirement fund board is required to pay ordered amounts when the member is or was entitled to receive them, to the specified parties, and in the proportionate amounts required by the order.
- The new statutory provisions apply when a pension fund member is a party to an action for dissolution of marriage under IC 31-15-2.
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- The legislation adds a new section, IC 5-10.3-8-10.5, to the Indiana Code.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Jan 8, 2026HouseIntroducedFirst reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
- Jan 8, 2026HouseAuthored by Representative GiaQuinta
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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