# Indiana SB 371: Workforce matters. Indiana SB 371, Workforce matters., is a First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025) Senate bill sponsored by Linda Rogers (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-05-06 (Signed by the Governor); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB371-2025 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Indiana SB 371 - State: Indiana - Session: First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025) - Title: Workforce matters. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-13 - Last action: 2025-05-06, Signed by the Governor - Sponsor: Linda Rogers (Republican) - Cosponsors: 5 - Subjects: pensions and labor, appropriations, the house, employment - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 5 (303 yes, 67 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 17 ## Summary Amends the definitions of "discharge for just cause", "employment", and "gross misconduct" for purposes of unemployment insurance. Provides that an unemployment claimant: (1) is required to verify the claimant's identity before a claim can be filed, and as a condition for continued eligibility; and (2) has the right to request a wage investigation and to appeal the results of the investigation to a liability administrative law judge. Allows an unemployment claimant or employing unit to appeal regarding the claimant's status as an insured worker. Requires that all hearings before an administrative law judge or the unemployment insurance review board concerning disputed unemployment claims be set as telephone hearings, unless an objection is made. Allows a disputed unemployment claim to be directly filed with a liability administrative law judge. Provides that administrative records of the department of workforce development (department) are self-authenticating and admissible in an administrative hearing. Provides that the department may release certain confidential records to the extent permitted by federal law. Makes certain changes regarding the reemployment service and eligibility assessment program. Makes various changes regarding extended unemployment benefits. Provides that repayment of a benefits overpayment may be waived if certain conditions are met. Alters certain fee and payment provisions. Removes or alters notice and delivery requirements and extends certain deadlines. Requires the department to issue a written notice of violation to a person who fails to comply with certain authorization requirements. Provides that the department may assess a civil penalty against a person under certain circumstances. Requires civil penalties collected by the department to be deposited in the proprietary educational institution authorization fund. Establishes the unemployment insurance modernization fund (fund). Requires the department to annually submit a report to the budget committee detailing the expenditures made from the fund during the previous state fiscal year. Requires the department to annually submit a report to the budget committee concerning the status of the department's unemployment insurance program. Provides that the department may establish a reemployment pilot program. Makes conforming changes. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Repayment relief for low-income unemployment claimants: benefit, medium. You may request relief from unemployment overpayment debt received without your fault, regardless of intent, when repayment violates equity and good conscience. The income test is met at no more than 65% of current federal poverty guidelines for household size in each required quarter. Review uses… - Training pilot authorizes extra weekly payments: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana may establish a pilot adding weekly training incentives to unemployment benefits; the law sets no amount. Participants must qualify for that week’s benefits and make satisfactory weekly training progress. The department must find they need training for sustainable wo… - More time to challenge unemployment decisions: benefit, low. Claimants and employers now have 15 days after notice is sent to request hearings on listed decisions, up from 10. Requested wage investigations must be prompt, and their decisions carry a 15-day appeal deadline. Beginning July 1, 2025, interested parties—not just employers—can protest listed contr… - Stronger privacy rules protect unemployment records: benefit, low. Indiana’s workforce department may release confidential unemployment information only as federal confidentiality rules permit. Wage sharing with family and social services remains allowed for purposes specified in state law. The law removes separate permissions for some summary statistics and emplo… - State funds unemployment upgrades and benefits: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana has a fund to modernize and maintain its unemployment system. It accepts training-fund transfers, appropriations, grants, and gifts; year-end balances stay in the fund, and no total appropriation is set. Within 30 days after December 31, the state transfers the emplo… - Extended claimants face strict search penalties: cost, high. Beginning July 1, 2025, extended-benefit claimants must make a sustained weekly job search and provide proof starting the week after written notice. Written, verifiable records must show search actions, application methods, work sought, dates, places, contacts, and results. The search standard requ… - Claimants face limits on repayment waivers: cost, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, waiver requests must follow the department’s process within 15 days after the overpayment decision becomes final. The department cannot consider requests tied to final determinations under the listed state provision or federal determinations exposing claimants to false-state… - Claimants must attend directed job services: cost, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, claimants must complete department-directed work searches, reemployment services, and eligibility assessments. The law deletes detailed statutory directions on activity counts, documentation, referred jobs, and reemployment assurances, leaving work-search directions to depar… - Claimants must verify identity before filing: cost, medium. Before filing a new unemployment claim, you must verify your identity if you have not already done so. You must use the Indiana workforce department’s required process. Regular and extended benefits are unavailable until identity verification is complete. - Organizations face unemployment coverage thresholds: cost, medium. The unemployment coverage rule for religious, charitable, educational, and other organizations uses a four-worker, 20-week threshold. At least four people must work in Indiana for part of a day in each of 20 different weeks. Those weeks can be nonconsecutive in the current or previous calendar year… - Court-ordered employer records cost more: cost, low. Indiana’s workforce department must charge $6 for each last-known-employer record released under a court order. The previous fee was a reasonable amount capped at $2 per record. Total charges depend on the number of records released. - Job counseling is no longer guaranteed: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana may offer counseling or training to people receiving unemployment benefits but is not required to. The workforce department decides how counseling is provided and how long it lasts. This provision no longer guarantees these services. - Unauthorized career schools face student-based fines: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana must notify operators when it discovers an unauthorized private career school. Operators have 15 days after written notice to obtain authorization. Otherwise, the department may fine the operator $100 for each attending student who lives in Indiana. Students do not p… - Workplace misconduct changes unemployment benefit eligibility: mixed, high. Beginning July 1, 2025, property damage counts as just cause for discharge when it involves willful and wanton misconduct, replacing willful negligence. Reporting under the influence or consuming alcohol or drugs during work is removed from the listed just-cause grounds. Separately, unauthorized al… - Job prospects shape suitable work rules: mixed, medium. Indiana classifies extended-benefit claimants’ chances of finding customary work within eight weeks as good or not good. Written notice is due by the initial claim week’s end; requirements start the next week, and unrealized good prospects become not good after eight weeks unless satisfactory evide… - New triggers for extended unemployment benefits: mixed, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana replaces its former extended-benefit triggers. The active trigger requires 13-week insured unemployment of at least 5% and 120% of each prior two years’ matching rate; at 6%, no comparison is required. The rate divides average weekly regular claims over 13 weeks by a… - Employer notices change alongside report penalties: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, employers lose the general right to first-class mail delivery of unemployment notices after requesting it. Delinquency or missing-report notices tied to extra contribution rates may go to a supplied email address or last known mailing address. Without email receipt or confir… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Linda Rogers (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Blake Doriot (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Doug Miller (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Heath VanNatter (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Liz Brown (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Stacey Donato (Republican), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-23 | House | Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House | pass | 91 | 0 | | | 2025-04-23 | Senate | Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate | pass | 47 | 0 | | | 2025-04-03 | House | Third reading: passed | pass | 89 | 0 | | | 2025-04-01 | House | Amendment #3 (Hamilton) failed | fail | 27 | 67 | | | 2025-02-20 | Senate | Third reading: passed | pass | 49 | 0 | | ## Actions (40) - 2025-05-06: Signed by the Governor (Senate) - 2025-05-06: Public Law 200 (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Signed by the President of the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Signed by the President Pro Tempore (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Signed by the Speaker (House) - 2025-04-23: Senator Brown L added as coauthor (Senate) - 2025-04-23: Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 491: yeas 47, nays 0 (Senate) - 2025-04-23: Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 526: yeas 91, nays 0 (House) - 2025-04-22: CCR # 1 filed in the House (House) - 2025-04-22: CCR # 1 filed in the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-22: CCR # 1 filed in the House (Senate) - 2025-04-22: CCR # 1 filed in the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-14: House conferees appointed: Miller D and Moseley (House) - 2025-04-14: Senate advisors appointed: Hunley, Donato and Doriot (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Senate conferees appointed: Rogers and Niezgodski (Senate) - 2025-04-14: House advisors appointed: Lopez, Hostettler and Hamilton (House) - 2025-04-10: Senate dissented from House amendments (Senate) - 2025-04-10: Motion to dissent filed (Senate) - 2025-04-04: Returned to the Senate with amendments (House) - 2025-04-03: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 359: yeas 89, nays 0 (House) - 2025-04-01: Amendment #1 (Porter) prevailed; voice vote (House) - 2025-04-01: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed (House) - 2025-04-01: Amendment #4 (Miller D) prevailed; voice vote (House) - 2025-04-01: Amendment #3 (Hamilton) failed; Roll Call 338: yeas 27, nays 67 (House) - 2025-03-27: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted (House) - 2025-03-20: Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3 (House) - 2025-03-20: Committee report: do pass, adopted (House) - 2025-03-03: First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions (House) - 2025-02-21: Referred to the House (Senate) - 2025-02-20: Cosponsor: Representative VanNatter (Senate) - 2025-02-20: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 49, nays 0 (Senate) - 2025-02-20: House sponsor: Representative Miller D (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Senator Doriot added as third author (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Senator Donato added as second author (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Amendment #1 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote (Senate) - 2025-02-13: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted (Senate) - 2025-02-06: Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations (Senate) - 2025-01-13: Authored by Senator Rogers (Senate) - 2025-01-13: First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor (Senate) ## Bill text - Engrossed Senate Bill (H): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.04.ENGS?format=pdf) - Engrossed Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.07.ENGH?format=pdf) - Enrolled Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.08.ENRH?format=pdf) - Introduced Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.01.INTR?format=pdf) - Senate Bill (H): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.05.COMH?format=pdf), [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.06.COMH?format=pdf) - Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.02.COMS?format=pdf), [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.03.COMS?format=pdf) ## Related bills - SB 231: Various corrections matters. (signed) - SB 324: Criminal procedures. (signed) - SB 80: Code publication. (signed) - SB 453: Various tax matters. (signed) - SB 464: Financial institutions and consumer credit. (signed) - SB 289: Unlawful discrimination. (signed) ## Sources - [Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.04.ENGS?format=pdf) - [Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.07.ENGH?format=pdf) - [Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.08.ENRH?format=pdf) - [Introduced Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.01.INTR?format=pdf) - [Senate Bill (H) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.05.COMH?format=pdf) - [Senate Bill (H) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.06.COMH?format=pdf) - [Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.02.COMS?format=pdf) - [Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0371/versions/SB0371.03.COMS?format=pdf) ## Related - [SB 231: Various corrections matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB231-2025) - [SB 324: Criminal procedures.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB324-2025) - [SB 80: Code publication.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB80-2025) - [SB 453: Various tax matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB453-2025) - [SB 464: Financial institutions and consumer credit.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB464-2025) - [SB 289: Unlawful discrimination.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB289-2025) - [Indiana bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/indiana/bills) - [Indiana state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/indiana) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB371-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).