IN HCR0043

Indiana General Assembly recognizes the 100-year centennial of Bosma Enterprises, Inc., which provides employment and rehabilitation services for people with vision disabilities

Bosma traces its origins to 1915 when Indiana created the Board of Industrial Aid for the Blind with a $10,000 annual budget to teach skills to adults who lost their eyesight

The organization transitioned from a state-run agency (renamed Charles E. Bosma Industries for the Blind in 1984) to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1988 when the state proposed closure, and assumed all state rehabilitation services for blind and visually impaired individuals in 2006

Employment services expanded from manufacturing brooms and textiles to include brake line assembly, food packaging, surgical glove packaging, contract warehousing, and digital printing services

Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives directed to transmit a copy of the resolution to Bosma Enterprises acknowledging its century of dedicated service to thousands of people