*HB1106.1*
January 29, 2024
HOUSE BILL No. 1106
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DIGEST OF HB 1106 (Updated January 29, 2024 11:31 am - DI 116)
Citations Affected: IC 22-12; IC 22-15.
Synopsis: Regulated amusement devices. Provides that the department
of homeland security (department) shall not inspect and operating
permits are not required for certain regulated amusement devices.
Provides that the department may perform an inspection of an
exempted regulated amusement device only if a valid complaint or
incident is reported to the department concerning the regulated
amusement device.
Effective: July 1, 2024.
Culp, Aylesworth, Bartels, Cherry
January 8, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety.
January 29, 2024, amended, reported — Do Pass.
HB 1106—LS 6794/DI 116 January 29, 2024
Second Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2024)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1106
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor
and safety.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 22-12-1-23, AS AMENDED BY P.L.160-2009,
2 SECTION 3, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2024]: Sec. 23. "Regulated place of amusement or
4 entertainment" refers to the following:
5 (1) A theater, opera house, movie theater, dance hall, night club
6 with a stage or floor show, or another place that offers an
7 amusement or entertainment to the public for consideration or
8 promotional purposes.
9 (2) A place where a boxing, sparring, or unarmed combat match
10 or exhibition is conducted under the supervision of the state
11 athletic commission.
12 (3) A hall, gymnasium, or place of assembly where a school,
13 college, university, social or fraternal organization, lodge, farmers
14 organization, society, labor union, trade association, or church
15 holds any type of amusement.
16 (4) A public or private place where a regulated amusement device
17 is operated, excluding devices described in IC 22-15-7-0.6.
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1 SECTION 2. IC 22-15-7-0.6 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
2 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
3 1, 2024]: Sec. 0.6. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c), the
4 department shall not inspect and operating permits are not
5 required for the following regulated amusement devices:
6 (1) A barrel train pulled by a garden tractor to a rubber tired
7 farm tractor propelled by a motor of not more than forty (40)
8 horsepower.
9 (2) A regulated amusement device exempt from the operating
10 permit and inspection requirements by a rule of the
11 commission.
12 (b) A regulated amusement device covered by this section shall
13 comply with all other requirements applicable to regulated
14 amusement devices in this chapter.
15 (c) The department may perform an inspection of a regulated
16 amusement device covered by this section only if a valid complaint
17 or incident is reported to the department concerning the regulated
18 amusement device.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety, to which was referred House Bill 1106, has had the same under
consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with
the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
(SEE TEXT OF BILL)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1106 as introduced.)
BARTELS
Committee Vote: yeas 11, nays 0.
HB 1106—LS 6794/DI 116