INDIANAPOLIS — People who’ve been wrongfully convicted and sent to prison in Indiana could be eligible for state payments of $50,000 per year they spent behind bars.

A state report estimates 25 ex-inmates could be eligible for nearly $14 million in total compensation.

Legislators voted last week to send the bill to Gov. Eric Holcomb for final consideration. It would allow someone found “actually innocent” of a crime to seek the payments.

Those seeking the payments would have to agree to not file lawsuits over their imprisonment.