Firefighter safety.
Summary
Requires the board of firefighting personnel standards and education to establish best practices to improve safety and health outcomes for firefighters. Establishes the best practices fund for the purpose of providing matching grants to political subdivisions and volunteer fire departments to purchase equipment and other gear to implement best practices. Provides that the worker's compensation rating bureau of Indiana may recommend a premium or rate discount toward worker's compensation insurance to political subdivisions and volunteer fire departments that implement best practices.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Mar 3, 2020
Signed Mar 18, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 3, 2020 · House Feb 24, 2020
How they voted
38–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 41
Feb 3, 2020
D
Democratic8
87% Yea
R
Republican33
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
36
Key actions
8
Committee
5
Amendments
3
Mar 18, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Mar 10, 2020
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 353: yeas 50, nays 0
upper
Mar 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 351: yeas 89, nays 0
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Introduced
CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
upper
Mar 9, 2020
Introduced
CCR # 1 filed in the House
lower
Mar 3, 2020
Amended
Senate dissented from House amendments
upper
Mar 3, 2020
Introduced
Motion to dissent filed
upper
Feb 25, 2020
Amended
Returned to the Senate with amendments
lower
Feb 24, 2020
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (88-0-4)
house
Feb 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
Amendment #1 (Frye R) prevailed; voice vote
lower
Feb 18, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
lower
Feb 4, 2020
Committee
Referred to the House
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (38-0-3)
senate
Jan 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
upper
4 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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