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House committee backs bill letting DHS do risk-based inspections and streamlining ignition-interlock oversight
Summary
Lawmakers passed House Bill 1202 to give the Indiana Department of Homeland Security flexibility to use risk-based inspections for fire and building safety, to allow sharing of EMS background checks for licensing, and to consolidate ignition-interlock device oversight under the State Toxicology Department.
Representative Ethan Lawson asked the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety to approve House Bill 1202, which he said modernizes decades-old provisions for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, the Criminal Justice Institute and the State Department of Toxicology.
Lawson told the committee the bill enables DHS to adopt a risk-based inspection schedule rather than being tied to calendar deadlines, reduces duplicative…
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