---
type: "Bill"
title: "Skills enhancement fund grants."
description: "Provides that an increase of wages with a participating employee or group of participating employees negotiated by agreement, regardless of timing, qualifies as an increase of wages for purposes of eligibility for a grant from the skills enhancement fund for a participating employee that is an existing worker."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1112"
citation: "Indiana HB 1112 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Work Training"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel Leonard", "Eric Koch", "Philip Boots", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/488fadad-4801-4714-90c2-3be558feca38"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1112"
source_hash: "977902a0526b717b97e46b11d72c518739e37bc58f41847c6247c91c85d473bf"
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 1112 (2020) — Skills enhancement fund grants.

Provides that an increase of wages with a participating employee or group of participating employees negotiated by agreement, regardless of timing, qualifies as an increase of wages for purposes of eligibility for a grant from the skills enhancement fund for a participating employee that is an existing worker.

## 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/2020/bills/HB1112/versions/HB1112.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1112/versions/HB1112.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1112/versions/HB1112.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1112/versions/HB1112.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1112 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1112 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Leonard
- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-28** Representative Moseley added as coauthor
- **2020-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Senate sponsors: Senators Koch and Holdman
- **2020-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-04** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Senator Boots added as third sponsor
- **2020-02-20** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 242: yeas 44, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** 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 18

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/488fadad-4801-4714-90c2-3be558feca38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).