---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment insurance."
description: "Clarifies provisions concerning the overpayment of unemployment benefits resulting from fraud or failure to disclose wages and the forfeiture of benefits or wage credits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1152"
citation: "Indiana HB 1152 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE generally", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel Leonard", "Dennis Kruse", "Eric Koch", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f524d62-1464-45ec-a28c-0015984e4dc9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1152"
source_hash: "8546ab544947309e58886b02b7dd2c40fbe9d253f2fe27f19f4891c57d17dfcc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1152 (2021) — Unemployment insurance.

Clarifies provisions concerning the overpayment of unemployment benefits resulting from fraud or failure to disclose wages and the forfeiture of benefits or wage credits.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1152/versions/HB1152.03.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1152/versions/HB1152.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1152/versions/HB1152.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1152/versions/HB1152.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1152/versions/HB1152.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1152 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Leonard
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Amendment #2 (Porter) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-01** Amendment #3 (Hatfield) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Amendment #5 (Austin) failed; Roll Call 19: yeas 31, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Representative Miller added as coauthor
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 42: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Amendment #2 (Tallian) failed; Roll Call 239: yeas 13, nays 35 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Senator Kruse added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-23** Senator Koch added as third sponsor
- **2021-03-23** Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 257: yeas 39, nays 10 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-31** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 34

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f524d62-1464-45ec-a28c-0015984e4dc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).