Indiana State Legislation

Chapter 1777 members have continued lobbying to obtain tax equality for Civil Service retirees and survivors with the Indiana General Assembly.  Chapter 1777’s Representative Ed Clere has accepted the duty of pushing for tax equity for Indiana CSRS retirees/survivors. Social Security, Railroad Retirement, Military, and Active Duty are tax exempt in Indiana.

The 2025 Indiana General Assembly concluded in April 2025 (budget year)  without equal tax equity for CSRS retirees and survivors again. The House Ways and Means amended Senate bill 453 to include an increase in the tax deduction for CSRS retirees/survivors to $22,000 which was voted out by the Senate. This same language was passed by the House Ways and Means and full House vote in 2023, where the bill sat in the Senate Appropriations Committee from the beginning of the session to the end without a hearing by the committee. In 2024, the bill language was attached to a House Ways and Means bill and on the last day of mediation on the House Ways and Means bill, it was deleted in order for the House Ways and Means bill to pass, due to Senate pressure and power to kill the whole bill. Senator Mishler, Senator Garten are stumbling blocks preventing passage of equal treatment as well as the members of the Senate that will not advocate for passage of a bill to eliminate taxation of seniors that did not retire under Social Security. Civil Service retirees are a fraction of the Indiana budget and the amount of money is not the issue at the Senate level. What is?