The Senate Judiciary Committee heard HB 1026 on commission, committee, and board administration authored by Rep. Engleman and sponsored by Sen. Freeman. The bill, which was prepared by the Code Revision Commission, does the following:
- specifies certain duties and responsibilities relating to the operations of various task forces, committees, boards, and councils (statutory entities);
- renames the Indiana code revision commission, probate code study commission, and other statutory entities;
- specifies certain statutory entities are subject to the general law governing legislative committees rather than to the law governing the statutory list of interim study committees;
- authorizes a designee of the revisor of statutes to serve as a member of the uniform law commission (ULC);
- repeals statutes governing the Medicaid oversight committee and relocates them to the law governing interim study committees;
- identifies certain state employees serving on statutory entities by their specific job titles;
- provides for the reimbursement of expenses of state employees, lay persons, and members of the general assembly serving on statutory entities; and,
- specifies the expiration dates of the terms of members of certain statutory entities.
The committee amended the bill by consent to reduce the frequency by which the distressed unit appeal board is required to meet from monthly to annually. The amended bill passed 9-0. Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2024/bills/house/1026