Employee misclassification.
Summary
Requires the department of state revenue, the state department of labor, the worker's compensation board of Indiana, and the department of workforce development to report before November 1 of each year for three years, beginning November 1, 2021, to the interim study committee on employment and labor for the immediately preceding state fiscal year: (1) the number of employers that each department or the board determined during the immediately preceding state fiscal year improperly classified at least one worker as an independent contractor; (2) the total number of improperly classified workers employed by those employers; (3) the department's or board's calculation of actual revenue not collected or the additional costs to the state that the department or board attributes to the improperly classified workers; (4) the amount of the penalties and interest assessed against those employers by each department or the board, and the amount of the penalties and interest assessed that has been collected; and (5) the classification criteria used by the department to classify workers. Requires that the reports include only information in the form of aggregate statistics and not include information that can be used to identify specific employers or workers.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2021
Last action Mar 16, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 15, 2021
How they voted
43–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 47
Feb 15, 2021
D
Democratic11
81% Yea
R
Republican36
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
14
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Feb 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House
upper
Feb 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 109: yeas 46, nays 0
upper
Feb 9, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
upper
4 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David Niezgodski
DDemocratic
P
Mike Bohacek
RRepublican
P
Mike Karickhoff
RRepublican
P
Travis Holdman
RRepublican
Co
Eddie Melton
DDemocratic
Co
Fady Qaddoura
DDemocratic
Co
Greg Taylor
DDemocratic
Co
J.D. Ford
DDemocratic
Co
Julie Olthoff
RRepublican
Co
KT
Karen Tallian
DDemocratic
Co
Maureen Bauer
DDemocratic
Co
RH
Ryan Hatfield
DDemocratic
Co
Shelli Yoder
DDemocratic
Co
TL
Tim Lanane
DDemocratic
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