---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1036"
citation: "Indiana HB 1036 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel Leonard", "James Buck", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b88db09c-78f1-4e75-9bde-ac62d4ccdcb7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1036"
source_hash: "26d3e2419611737ae25f68e844f1fa3fa905d66820848e009ef0281ba4d80f26"
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 1036 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1036 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1036 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
- Richard Hamm — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Leonard
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Lehman added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Boots and Buck
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Senator Tallian added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 208: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-05** Representative Hamm added as coauthor
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 326: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 66

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b88db09c-78f1-4e75-9bde-ac62d4ccdcb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).