Summer Study Committees - A Citizen's Guide to Indiana

The General Assembly’s “summer” study committees are kicking into gear. Information on the committees is available here.

The first meeting of the Indiana Commission on Autism will be held on August 24, 2006.

The first meeting of the Child Custody and Support Advisory Committee will be
held on August 25, 2006.

The Interim Study Committee on Children’s Issues will meet on August 28, 2006 to discuss, among other things, children’s health in relation to care and management of student diabetes in school.

The Commission on Courts will meet August 29, 2006 to discuss creation of a judicial circuit for Switzerland County and the establishment of a dedicated fund for court fees.

The Interim Study Committee on Criminal Justice Matters will meet on August 30, 2006 to discuss, among other things, “next of kin” issues and improvements to Indiana’s background check system. Minutes from the committee’s August 2, 2006 meeting are available here. At that meeting, they discussed issues relating to coroners and the proposal by the Indiana Dept. of Homeland Security to create a “disaster mortuary operational respoonse team” (DMORT).

The Environmental Quality Service Council will hold its first meeting on August 18, 2006.

The minutes from the August 2, 2006 meeting of the FSSA Evaluation Committee is available here. At that meeting, the Committee discussed the development of a survey of consumers and providers of FSSA services. The survey was mandated by the 2006 General Assembly and will be performed with the support of the IUPUI Survey Research Center.

That’s an incomplete review of activity, but about all I have time for this morning. LSA maintains a handy calendar. But you have to go to the individual committee pages to see if there is any information about what the committee has or will discuss.

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