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IN SB0071
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/3/2018
Primary Sponsor
Michael Crider
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AI Summary
- Cities, towns, townships, and counties must lay off emergency medical services personnel in reverse hiring order (last hired, first laid off) when reducing staff for financial reasons
- Laid-off EMS personnel must be reinstated before any new members are hired when staffing increases, with reinstatements occurring in reverse layoff order (last laid off, first reinstated)
- Laid-off members must keep the governing body informed of their current address and will receive reinstatement notices via certified mail
- Members have 20 calendar days after reinstatement notice is sent to accept and confirm availability to start on the specified date
- Reinstatement rights expire if the member fails to respond within 20 days or 5 years after the layoff date, whichever occurs first
Legislative Description
Employment of emergency medical service providers. Provides that if a governing body of a city, town, township, or county must reduce the number of its members of emergency medical services personnel by layoff for financial reasons, the last member appointed must be the first laid off, with other members laid off in reverse order of being hired. Provides that if the emergency medical services personnel are later increased in number, the members who have been laid off must be reinstated before any new member is appointed. Provides for notification of reinstatement to a member, and directs that a member in
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
1/3/2018
Committee Referrals
Local Government1/3/2018
Full Bill Text
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