---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of workforce development."
description: "Defines or amends certain terms. Codifies certain administrative rules with respect to: (1) experience accounts; (2) reporting; (3) contribution rates and payment; (4) seasonal workers; (5) benefit payments to the deceased; (6) part-time workers; (7) work searches; (8) partial unemployment; (9) the filing of claims; (10) interstate claimants; (11) administrative law proceedings; and (12) notice. Alters the powers of the department of workforce development with respect to administrative cooperation agreements. Changes when the department may issue a civil penalty with respect to unauthorized postsecondary proprietary educational institutions. Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 214"
citation: "Indiana SB 214 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; Generally", "AGENCIES; Department of Workforce Development (DWD)", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents", "HIGHER EDUCATION; Colleges and Universities (Including Ivy Tech)", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Unemployment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ethan Lawson", "Linda Rogers", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-08"
last_action: "2026-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4428584-b621-4591-9973-2be4ebcad5b0"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0214"
source_hash: "4a043ed26bd51e036b444d774252bcc8903b77440a8df8519cd050ada9af00bb"
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 SB 214 (2026) — Department of workforce development.

Defines or amends certain terms. Codifies certain administrative rules with respect to: (1) experience accounts; (2) reporting; (3) contribution rates and payment; (4) seasonal workers; (5) benefit payments to the deceased; (6) part-time workers; (7) work searches; (8) partial unemployment; (9) the filing of claims; (10) interstate claimants; (11) administrative law proceedings; and (12) notice. Alters the powers of the department of workforce development with respect to administrative cooperation agreements. Changes when the department may issue a civil penalty with respect to unauthorized postsecondary proprietary educational institutions. Makes conforming changes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0214/SB0214.05.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0214/SB0214.06.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0214/SB0214.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0214/SB0214.04.COMH.pdf)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0214/SB0214.02.COMS.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 214 - Lawson - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 214 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 214 - Gaskill — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ethan Lawson — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** Authored by Senators Gaskill, Rogers
- **2026-01-15** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Lawson
- **2026-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 107: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-28** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-29** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Amendment #1 (Lawson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 267: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-19** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-02-25** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 281: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-05** Public Law 121 `became-law`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4428584-b621-4591-9973-2be4ebcad5b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).