I take pride in the legislation I work on with my fellow representatives. In the past two weeks, three bills that I either authored or co-authored were passed in the House with overwhelming support. Below are some bills I am working on so far this session that are heading to the Senate for a final vote.
House Bill 1064 deals with chemical reagents and precursors. It adds ammonium chloride, potassium iodide, and calcium chloride to the list of chemical substances and precursors that are used for the purpose of criminal laws concerning unlawful possession or sale of methamphetamines. All of these chemicals are salts and if and individual is found with 2 or more chemicals with the intent to manufacture methamphetamines it will be categorized as a Class D felony. House Bill 1064 passed out of the Committee on Courts and Criminal Code 10-0, and when I presented the bill to the House of Representatives it passed 91-1.
Another bill I would like to highlight is House Bill 1151. The bill creates the Blue alert program, which would notify the public when a law enforcement officer is killed, seriously injured, or missing in the line of duty. The Indiana State Police Department will operate the program, which is based on the Amber and Silver alert system. Currently, 15 states already have a Blue alert system and I am proud to say the bill passed out of the House on February 5 with a vote of 98-0.
The final bill I am a co-author of is House Bill 1111 which details the practice of tactical emergency medicine. This practice of medicine is deï¬ned as both emergent and non-emergent care provided to victims of illness or injury related to law enforcement or military operations, often in a hostile environment. The bill would allow an individual to practice tactical emergency medicine if the individual: (1) is an emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency medical technician, or a paramedic; (2) is employed by a law enforcement agency or an emergency medical services agency to provide retrieval and field medical treatment to victims of violent confrontations; and (3) has successfully completed an accredited educational training program in tactical emergency medicine.
The bill also requires that a law enforcement agency or an emergency medical services agency that allows a person to practice tactical medicine must be certified. It’s important we give our first responders ease of mind in the most dire of circumstances. House Bill 1111 will enable those that are trained in tactical medicine to respond immediately with life saving measures in hostile situations. The bill was passed out of the House on January 28 with a vote 97-0.
Rep. Bacon waiting to speak on House Bill 1064
Another moron trying to ban legitimate and useful substances to make up for poor policeworking. If you actually look them up, the three listed substances are quite useful and often used. Calcium chloride and potassium chloride are both common salts used in swimming pools, used to deice sidewalks in the winter, used to iodide salt, and used to treat thyroid deficiencies, among the many applications for them. So we’re going to arrest you if you deice your sidewalks and have a thyroid deficiency? This is totally nuts.
This is similar to the restrictions on pseudoephedrine. Now you can get hauled into jail if you try and restock your cold medicine. Again, this is just more restrictions on law-abiding citizens that may inconvenience meth makers, but can sweep up innocents in the process.
At best buying large amounts of pseudoephedrine gives the police a tip that you might be worth checking into, but you shouldn’t go to jail over it. If the cops were actually doing their jobs and investigating suspicious purchases, than we wouldn’t need all these stupid bans on useful chemicals.
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