Bill Text: IN HB1194 | 2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Public safety officer layoff and reinstatement.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2010-03-25 - Effective 07/01/2010 [HB1194 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-HB1194-Engrossed.html
Citations Affected: IC 36-8.
Synopsis: Public safety officer layoff and reinstatement. Provides that
the reinstatement rights of a laid off member of a city police or fire
department, or a laid off member of a sheriff's department, terminates
five years (instead of three years) after the day on which the member's
layoff begins.
Effective: July 1, 2010.
(SENATE SPONSORS _ YOUNG R MICHAEL, ERRINGTON, BUCK)
January 7, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Employment.
January 20, 2010, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
January 25, 2010, read second time, ordered engrossed.
January 26, 2010, engrossed. Read third time, passed. Yeas 94, nays 0.
February 1, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor.
February 11, 2010, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
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(b) If the department is increased in number again, the members of the department who have been laid off under this section shall be reinstated before any new member is appointed to the department. The reinstatements begin with the last member laid off.
(c) A member who is laid off shall keep the appointing authority advised of
specified in the notice. All reinstatement rights granted to a member
terminate upon his the member's failure to accept reinstatement within
that twenty (20) day period or three (3) five (5) years after the day on
which a member's layoff begins.
(b) If it is necessary for the appointing authority to reduce the number of members of the department by layoff for financial reasons, the last member appointed to the department must be the first to be laid off. Additional members must be laid off in reverse hiring order until the desired level of employment is achieved.
(c) If department membership is increased, the members of the department who have been laid off under this section must be reinstated before any new member is appointed to the department. The last member to be laid off from the department must be the first to be reinstated. Additional members must be reinstated in reverse of the order in which the members were laid off.
(d) A member who is laid off shall keep the appointing authority advised of the member's current address. The appointing authority shall inform a member of the member's reinstatement by written notice sent by certified mail to the member's last known address.
(e) Not later than twenty (20) calendar days after the date notice of reinstatement is sent under subsection (d), the member must advise the appointing authority whether the member:
(1) accepts reinstatement; and
(2) will be able to commence employment on the date specified in the notice.
(f) All reinstatement rights granted to a member under this section terminate on the earlier of:
(1) the date the member fails to accept reinstatement within the time specified in subsection (e); or
(2)
