--- type: "Bill" title: "Various welfare matters." description: "Provides that money earned by a child or a member of the child's family as a student participating in a paid internship, a work based learning course, or a paid postsecondary work experience that allows the individual to apply for a related apprenticeship is: (1) disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance or the amount of assistance for a child under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); (2) disregarded for certain Medicaid category populations in determining eligibility for Medicaid; and (3) factored by applying a reasonable method to include a prorated portion of reasonably predictable future income in determining Medicaid eligibility for certain Medicaid category populations. Specifies that income earned by an individual employed in a temporary job as a census worker is not counted for purposes of: (1) TANF; (2) SNAP; (3) Medicaid; (4) a school lunch program; and (5) determining eligibility for certain scholarships, grants, or awards. Changes the amount of equity value in a motor vehicle disregarded for purposes of eligibility in the TANF program from $5,000 to $10,000." jurisdiction: "us/states/in" legislature: "Indiana General Assembly" session: "2020" identifier: "HB 1009" citation: "Indiana HB 1009 (2020)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["WELFARE generally"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Goodrich", "John Ruckelshaus", "Jon Ford", "Mark Messmer"] version_count: 5 action_count: 26 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2020-01-06" last_action: "2020-03-30" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0eb8d736-f2ec-4a64-a9c5-7e9661882e0e" source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1009" source_hash: "e891a92944bc37b153c6b0dbf35e0e6d2ce8ce384fb77ccb533a332765bfddc7" 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 1009 (2020) — Various welfare matters. Provides that money earned by a child or a member of the child's family as a student participating in a paid internship, a work based learning course, or a paid postsecondary work experience that allows the individual to apply for a related apprenticeship is: (1) disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance or the amount of assistance for a child under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); (2) disregarded for certain Medicaid category populations in determining eligibility for Medicaid; and (3) factored by applying a reasonable method to include a prorated portion of reasonably predictable future income in determining Medicaid eligibility for certain Medicaid category populations. Specifies that income earned by an individual employed in a temporary job as a census worker is not counted for purposes of: (1) TANF; (2) SNAP; (3) Medicaid; (4) a school lunch program; and (5) determining eligibility for certain scholarships, grants, or awards. Changes the amount of equity value in a motor vehicle disregarded for purposes of eligibility in the TANF program from $5,000 to $10,000. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1009/versions/HB1009.03.ENGH) 2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1009/versions/HB1009.05.ENRS) 3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1009/versions/HB1009.04.COMS) 4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1009/versions/HB1009.02.COMH) 5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1009/versions/HB1009.01.INTR) ## Votes - HB 1009 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper - HB 1009 - Goodrich - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Chuck Goodrich — primary (person) - John Ruckelshaus — primary (person) - Jon Ford — primary (person) - Mark Messmer — primary (person) - Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person) - Dale DeVon — coauthor (person) - J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person) - Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person) - Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person) - Ron Alting — cosponsor (person) - Todd Huston — coauthor (person) - Victoria Spartz — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2020-01-06** Authored by Representative Goodrich - **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2020-01-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2020-01-14** Representatives Huston, DeVon, Pryor added as coauthors - **2020-01-21** Amendment #1 (Pryor) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure` - **2020-01-21** Amendment #3 (Pryor) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure` - **2020-01-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage` - **2020-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer - **2020-01-24** Referred to the Senate - **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2020-02-17** Senator Ford Jon added as second sponsor - **2020-02-17** Senator Ruckelshaus added as third sponsor - **2020-02-17** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor - **2020-02-17** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor - **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2020-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor - **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 219: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage` - **2020-02-24** Senators Alting and Spartz added as cosponsors - **2020-02-25** Returned to the House without amendments - **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker - **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore - **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate - **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature` - **2020-03-30** Public Law 14 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0eb8d736-f2ec-4a64-a9c5-7e9661882e0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).