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IN HB1090
Bill
Status
3/21/2016
Primary Sponsor
Randall Frye
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AI Summary
HEA 1090 Summary
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Establishes that membership on the emergency response commission and local emergency planning committees are not lucrative offices under Article 2, Section 9 of the Indiana Constitution, effective July 1, 2016.
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Grants the commission authority to appoint members of local emergency planning committees for each emergency planning district and determine the appropriate committee size.
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Requires local emergency planning committee membership to include representatives from state and local officials, law enforcement, emergency services, media, community groups, and facility owners/operators subject to chemical hazard regulations.
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Allows local emergency planning committee members who are unit employees to appoint designees to represent them, with written notice submitted at least two calendar days before the designee's first meeting.
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Designates local emergency planning committees as county boards, with single-county districts designated as the board of that county and multi-county districts designating one county through inter-county agreement.
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Allows the commission to revise committee membership and permits interested persons, including county executives, to petition for membership modifications.
Legislative Description
Local emergency planning committees. Provides that membership on the emergency response commission (commission) is not a lucrative office for purposes of the constitutional prohibition against holding more than one lucrative office at the same time. Specifies that the commission appoints the members of the local emergency planning committee of each emergency planning district. Provides that the commission may decide how many members a local emergency planning committee is to have, and that a local emergency planning committee's members must include representatives of five particular categories. Provides that membership on a local emergency planning committee is not a lucrative office. Allows
Last Action
Public Law 68
3/21/2016