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type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment compensation."
description: "Amends the definition of \"deductible income\" for purposes of the unemployment compensation laws. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, the department of workforce development may accept an offer in compromise from an employer or claimant to reduce past due debts arising from contributions or benefit overpayments. Provides that an individual is ineligible for benefits for any week that the individual receives payments equal to or exceeding the individual's weekly benefit amount in pension, retirement, or annuity payments under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes all of the money. (Under current law, the disqualification provision applies under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes a portion or all of the money.) Provides that the state of Indiana is not required to participate in or precluded from ceasing to participate in any offered or enacted voluntary, optional, special, or emergency federal program. Makes corresponding changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1451"
citation: "Indiana HB 1451 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INCOME TAXES", "Deductions", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "State Department and Agencies", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Unemployment Compensation", "PENSIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Linda Rogers", "Martin Carbaugh"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab567e14-f3b0-4e96-bcdf-7f632e8855be"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1451"
source_hash: "880a2e9a931253df00f8f9a08971f613fcdf32e8a7aac9aa390d8b76117b7473"
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 1451 (2023) — Unemployment compensation.
Amends the definition of "deductible income" for purposes of the unemployment compensation laws. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, the department of workforce development may accept an offer in compromise from an employer or claimant to reduce past due debts arising from contributions or benefit overpayments. Provides that an individual is ineligible for benefits for any week that the individual receives payments equal to or exceeding the individual's weekly benefit amount in pension, retirement, or annuity payments under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes all of the money. (Under current law, the disqualification provision applies under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes a portion or all of the money.) Provides that the state of Indiana is not required to participate in or precluded from ceasing to participate in any offered or enacted voluntary, optional, special, or emergency federal program. Makes corresponding changes.
## 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/2023/bills/HB1451/versions/HB1451.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1451/versions/HB1451.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1451/versions/HB1451.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1451/versions/HB1451.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1451 - Walker G - 3rd Reading — **420** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-17** Authored by Representative Carbaugh
- **2023-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Representatives VanNatter and Hatfield added as coauthors
- **2023-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Walker G
- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 183: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Senator Rogers added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 245: yeas 42, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-22** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 85 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab567e14-f3b0-4e96-bcdf-7f632e8855be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).