Introduced Version
SENATE BILL No. 294
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 5-2-1.
Synopsis: Law enforcement training board. Changes the membership
of the law enforcement training board.
Effective: July 1, 2022.
Crider
January 10, 2022, read first time and referred to Committee on Homeland Security and
Transportation.
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Second Regular Session of the 122nd General Assembly (2022)
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SENATE BILL No. 294
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state
and local administration.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 5-2-1-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.187-2021,
2 SECTION 4, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2022]: Sec. 3. There is created, as a criminal justice agency of
4 the state, a law enforcement training board to carry out the provisions
5 of this chapter. The board members are to be selected as provided by
6 this chapter. The board is composed of the following members:
7 (1) The superintendent of the Indiana state police department,
8 who representing the Indiana state police academy. The
9 superintendent shall serve as chairperson of the board.
10 (2) The executive director of the department of homeland security
11 appointed under IC 10-19-3-1. The executive director shall serve
12 as the vice chair of the board.
13 (3) The chief of police of a consolidated city, representing the
14 police department academy of the consolidated city.
15 (4) One (1) county sheriff from a county with a population of at
16 least one hundred thousand (100,000).
17 (5) (4) One (1) county sheriff from a county having a population
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1 of at least fifty thousand (50,000). but less than one hundred
2 thousand (100,000) population.
3 (6) (5) One (1) county sheriff from a county having a population
4 of under less than fifty thousand (50,000). population.
5 (7) (6) One (1) chief of police from a city having a population of
6 at least thirty-five thousand (35,000) population, who is not the
7 chief of police of a consolidated city.
8 (8) (7) One (1) chief of police from a city having a population of
9 at least ten thousand (10,000) but under of less than thirty-five
10 thousand (35,000). population.
11 (9) One (1) chief of police, police officer, or town marshal from
12 a city or town of under ten thousand (10,000) population.
13 (10) (8) One (1) prosecuting attorney.
14 (11) (9) One (1) judge of a circuit or superior court exercising
15 criminal jurisdiction.
16 (10) The chief administrative officer of the Indiana law
17 enforcement academy.
18 (11) The commander of the northwest Indiana law
19 enforcement academy.
20 (12) The commander of the southwest Indiana law
21 enforcement academy.
22 (13) The commander of the Fort Wayne police department
23 academy.
24 (14) The commander of the Indiana University police
25 department academy.
26 (12) (15) One (1) member representing professional journalism.
27 (13) One (1) member representing the medical profession.
28 (14) (16) One (1) member representing education.
29 (15) (17) One (1) member representing a minority owned
30 business and industry. or nonprofit organization.
31 (16) One (1) member representing labor.
32 (17) (18) One (1) member representing Indiana elected officials
33 of counties, cities, and towns.
34 (19) Three (3) members representing the general public.
35 SECTION 2. IC 5-2-1-4, AS AMENDED BY P.L.197-2011,
36 SECTION 28, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
37 JULY 1, 2022]: Sec. 4. All members of the board shall be appointed to
38 the board by the governor. The appointments shall be made on a
39 bipartisan basis so that not more than one-half (1/2) of the members of
40 the board shall at any time be members of either of the two (2) major
41 political parties. Not more than eleven (11) members may be
42 members of the same political party. All appointments shall be for
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1 terms of four (4) years or while maintaining the position held at the
2 time of appointment to the board, whichever is the lesser period.
3 Appointees to the board shall serve as members of the board only while
4 holding the office or position held at the time of appointment to the
5 board in order that the representative nature of the board outlined in
6 section 3 of this chapter may be maintained. However, each member of
7 the board shall serve until the member's successor has been appointed
8 and qualified, unless the member's services are terminated earlier for
9 sufficient reason. Vacancies on the board caused by expiration of a
10 term, termination of the office or position held at time of appointment,
11 or for any other reason shall be filled in the same manner as original
12 appointments. A member appointed to fill a vacancy created other than
13 by expiration of a term shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the
14 member succeeded in the same manner as an original appointment.
15 Members of the board may be reappointed for additional terms. All
16 members of the board shall serve, unless their services are terminated
17 earlier for sufficient reason, until their successors have been appointed
18 and qualified. Members of the board may be removed by the governor
19 for inefficiency, incompetence, neglect of duty, or other good cause
20 after having been accorded a hearing by the governor upon reasonable
21 notice of the charge being made against them.
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