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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 488: Skills training pilot program.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 488 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Skills training pilot program. Primary sponsor: Danny Lopez (Republican), Linda Rogers (Republican), Liz Brown (Republican). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 20, 2025): Committee report: do pass, adopted.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Provides that the department of workforce development may establish a reemployment skills training pilot program (pilot program) to supplement an individual's receipt of weekly unemployment benefits. If a pilot program is established, would establish a reemployment skills training pilot program fund for the purpose of funding the program. Specifies program requirements for participants and eligible providers.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 10

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Danny LopezPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse39
Linda RogersPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate11
Liz BrownPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate15
Scott AlexanderCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate26
Jim BuckCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate21
Becky CashCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse25
Dan DernulcCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate1
Blake DoriotCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate12
Julie OlthoffCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse19
Lonnie RandolphCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate2
Greg WalkerCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate41

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  2. Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
  3. Representative Cash added as cosponsor
  4. Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
  5. First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
  6. Referred to the House
  7. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 45, nays 2
  8. Senator Buck added as coauthor
  9. House sponsor: Representative Lopez
  10. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  11. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  12. Senator Randolph added as coauthor

Showing 12 most recent of 18 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source