---
type: "Bill"
title: "Worker's compensation."
description: "Provides that, after June 30, 2025, a party may not prohibit an employer from bidding on a contract solely on the basis of the employer's experience rating."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1214"
citation: "Indiana HB 1214 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Insurance (IDOI)", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Worker's Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Matt Lehman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8cc8f882-2e15-45a4-9edd-6e26b7d5dd79"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1214"
source_hash: "63b5dabe08d138741426992f161b9a0b5c690f7d7a0b09077919d28582bbed88"
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 1214 (2025) — Worker's compensation.

Provides that, after June 30, 2025, a party may not prohibit an employer from bidding on a contract solely on the basis of the employer's experience rating.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1214/HB1214.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1214/HB1214.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1214/HB1214.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1214/HB1214.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1214 - Lehman — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1214 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1214 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Baldwin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Lehman
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Representatives Teshka, Moseley, Bartels added as coauthors
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Representative Bartels removed as coauthor
- **2025-02-03** Representative Bartlett added as coauthor
- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Zay
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 85: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Cosponsor: Senator Baldwin
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 299: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 363: yeas 90, nays 0
- **2025-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 87 `became-law`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8cc8f882-2e15-45a4-9edd-6e26b7d5dd79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).