MR. PRESIDENT:
The Senate Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 20,
has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the
recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:
Delete the title and insert the following:
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state
police, civil defense and military affairs.
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1.
IC 10-1-7-0.1
IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2002]: Sec. 0.1. As used in this chapter, "Amber alert program"
means a program under which the clearinghouse transmits
information about a recently abducted child to broadcasters who
have agreed to participate in the program and who immediately
and repeatedly broadcast this information to the general public.
SOURCE: IC 10-1-7-0.5; (02)LS6949.2. -->
SECTION 2.
IC 10-1-7-0.5
IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2002]: Sec. 0.5. As used in this chapter, "broadcaster" means the
operator of a radio or television station.
SOURCE: IC 10-1-7-5; (02)LS6949.3. -->
SECTION 3.
IC 10-1-7-5
IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2002]: Sec. 5. (a) The clearinghouse shall do
the following:
(1) Collect, process, and maintain identification and investigative
information to aid in finding missing children.
(2) Establish a statewide, toll-free telephone line for reports of
missing children and sightings of missing children.
(3) Operate the Amber alert program.
(4) Prescribe a uniform reporting form concerning missing
children for use by law enforcement agencies within Indiana.
(4) (5) Assist in training law enforcement and other professionals
on issues relating to missing children.
(5) (6) Operate a resource center of information regarding the
prevention of:
(A) the abduction of children; and
(B) the sexual exploitation of children.
(6) (7) Distribute the quarterly report prepared under
IC 10-1-7-4
(b)(7) to schools and hospitals.
(7) (8) Distribute the quarterly report described in subdivision (6)
to child care centers and child care homes that make an annual
contribution of four dollars ($4) to the clearinghouse. The
contributions must be used to help defray the cost of publishing
the quarterly report.
(b) For a missing child who was born in Indiana, the clearinghouse
shall notify the vital statistics division of the state department of health:
(1) within fifteen (15) days after receiving a report under
IC 31-36-1-3
(or
IC 31-6-13-4
before its repeal) of a missing child
less than thirteen (13) years of age; and
(2) promptly after the clearinghouse is notified that a missing
child has been found.
(c) Upon receiving notification under subsection (b) that a child is
missing or has been found, the vital statistics division of the state
department of health shall notify the local health department or the
health and hospital corporation that has jurisdiction over the area where
the child was born.
(d) Information collected, processed, or maintained by the
clearinghouse under subsection (a) is confidential and is not subject to
IC 5-14-3
, but may be disclosed at the discretion of the clearinghouse
for purposes of locating missing children.
SOURCE: IC 10-1-7-5.5; (02)LS6949.4. -->
SECTION 4.
IC 10-1-7-5.5
IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2002]: Sec. 5.5. (a) The clearinghouse may enter into an
agreement with one (1) or more broadcasters to operate the Amber
alert program.
(b) The superintendent of state police shall designate staff
responsible for the operation of the Amber alert program.
(c) The department shall adopt guidelines governing the
clearinghouse's operation of the Amber alert program. The
department's guidelines may require that staff, upon receiving a
report that a child has been abducted, immediately send by
facsimile (fax) transmission or other means of communication a
description of the abducted child to one (1) or more broadcasters
participating in the Amber alert program.
(d) A broadcaster participating in the Amber alert program
shall immediately broadcast:
(1) a description of the abducted child; and
(2) other information that will assist in locating the abducted
child;
to the general public in accordance with the Amber alert plan
agreement between the clearinghouse and the broadcaster.
(e) The department shall adopt guidelines governing the
voluntary Amber alert program agreement between the
clearinghouse and a broadcaster. The voluntary agreement
between the clearinghouse and the broadcaster may include the
following provisions:
(1) Upon receiving a notification as part of the Amber alert
program, the broadcaster shall broadcast the information
contained on the notice:
(A) one (1) time every fifteen (15) minutes during the first
three (3) hours after the station receives the notice as part
of the station's station identification;
(B) after the initial three (3) hours following receipt of the
Amber alert notification has elapsed, one (1) time every
thirty (30) minutes during the following five (5) hours as
part of the station's station identification; and
(C) after the initial eight (8) hours following receipt of the
Amber alert notification, the broadcaster shall include the
alert in the broadcaster's news for the following forty (40)
hours.
(2) The broadcaster shall broadcast only information related
to the abducted child that is contained in the Amber alert
notification.
(3) The broadcaster shall treat the Amber alert notification as
an emergency.
(4) The broadcaster shall ensure that the facsimile (fax)
transmission machine or other communications device used
to receive an Amber alert notification is:
(A) generally available to receive an Amber alert
notification; and
(B) located such that the broadcaster will immediately
become aware of an incoming Amber alert notification.
(Reference is to SB 20 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill be reassigned to the Senate Committee on Public Policy.