Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1024
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 10-10.5-2-1.
Synopsis: Classifying coroners as first responders. Adds coroners,
deputy coroners, and medicolegal death investigators to the list of
designated Indiana first responders.
Effective: July 1, 2022.
Saunders
January 4, 2022, read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety.
2022 IN 1024—LS 6536/DI 137 Introduced
Second Regular Session of the 122nd General Assembly (2022)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1024
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
public safety.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 10-10.5-2-1, AS ADDED BY P.L.113-2020,
2 SECTION 1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2022]: Sec. 1. The state of Indiana designates the following
4 individuals to be Indiana first responders:
5 (1) A law enforcement officer.
6 (2) A firefighter, including a volunteer firefighter.
7 (3) A corrections officer.
8 (4) A public safety telecommunicator.
9 (5) An emergency medical technician, emergency medical
10 responder, or paramedic.
11 (6) An individual performing emergency management services
12 subject to the order or control of, or under a request of, the state
13 or local government, including a volunteer health practitioner
14 registered under IC 10-14-3.5.
15 (7) Any individual serving in an employee or volunteer capacity
16 for a public safety agency, whose duties include rapid emergency
17 response.
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1 (8) A coroner, deputy coroner, or medicolegal death
2 investigator.
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