Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
4 instruments in Indiana. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
=No change to benefitsBrings military protective orders into Indiana protective order cases; no veteran benefit changes.
Amended IC 34-26-5-5 to add to each party's continuing duty of disclosure "any military protective order issued by a military commander in effect under 10 U.S.C. 1567", and IC 34-26-5-9 to let the court consider evidence of a military protective order protecting the petitioner. Approved March 4, 2026, effective July 1, 2026.
▲Expands benefitsRequires every county to employ a veterans service officer, who must be accredited by the department after June 30, 2026.
Amended IC 10-17-1-9 to require each county executive to employ a service officer, allow counties to share one with the Veterans' Affairs Commission's approval, require county officials to cooperate, and provide that "After June 30, 2026, a service officer must be accredited by the department in order to provide service to veterans on behalf of the county or city". Approved May 6, 2025.
▲Expands benefitsNarrows the discharge exclusion across the veterans statutes from 'other than honorable' to a list of disqualifying discharges, and opens the Veterans' Home to all eight uniformed services.
Amended IC 1-1-4-5 so a Hoosier veteran includes active as well as reserve and Guard service, and replaced exclusions of other than honorable discharges in the state and local hiring preferences, the Veterans' Home, the burial allowance, the peddler licence and many other sections with a reference to the list in IC 10-17-12-7.5(2): court-martial, discharge in lieu, security offenses, willful or persistent misconduct, sexual or violent offenses and disallowable separation codes. Opened the Veterans' Home to all eight uniformed services, created the Medal of Honor plate and added the Space Force throughout. Approved May 6, 2025, effective July 1, 2025. In IC 1-1-4-5 the act wrote "under conditions other than conditions set forth in" the list, which read literally inverted the test; House Enrolled Act 1343 of 2026 corrected it.
▲Expands benefitsExtends the military pay exemption and the military retirement deduction to the Space Force and the Public Health Service and NOAA commissioned corps.
Amended IC 6-3-1-34 so qualified military income includes pay of the Space Force and of the Public Health Service and NOAA commissioned corps, and IC 6-3-2-4 so the retirement and survivor benefits deduction covers those services, effective January 1, 2025 retroactively. Approved April 10, 2025. The Department of Revenue updated Information Bulletins 6 and 27 in June 2025.
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