Citations Affected: IC 8-9.
Synopsis: Railroad employees involved in accidents. Requires a Class
I railroad company to establish a counseling or trauma program and
provide or make available counseling or critical stress debriefing
services to each operating crew member of a train that is operated by
the railroad company in passenger, freight, or yard service and that is
involved in an accident that results in death or serious bodily injury.
Requires a Class I railroad company to file a description of the railroad
company's counseling or trauma program with the department of
transportation, who must receive the descriptions and make the
descriptions available to the public. Requires a railroad company to file
a revised description of the counseling or trauma program with the
Indiana department of transportation before making a change to the
railroad company's required counseling or trauma program.
Effective: September 1, 2001.
January 8, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
February 19, 2001, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
February 22, 2001, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
February 26, 2001, read third time, passed. Yeas 84, nays 12.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
utilities and transportation.
yard service; and
(2) involved in an accident that results in death or serious
bodily injury.
(b) A railroad company operating in Indiana shall file a
description of the railroad company's counseling or trauma
program required under subsection (a) with the Indiana
department of transportation, whose sole responsibility under this
section is to receive the descriptions and make the descriptions
available to the public in accordance with IC 5-14-3.
(c) Before a railroad company implements one (1) or more
changes to the railroad company's counseling or trauma program
required under subsection (a), the railroad company must file with
the Indiana department of transportation a revised description of
the program that includes the changes.