2025 Regular Session - Day 15 - HB 196, Rep. John Blanton

thank you Mr Speaker uh members this is not a new piece of legislation to this body we actually passed it out last year um it deals with um medical emergency technicians and coalmine operations um and the changes made from last year to this year last year it reduced the number of Mets from 2 to one uh required in mines with 15 or less miners this year the bill says they have to be 10 or less miners so we reduce that number um is to allow our mining operations to stay operational currently the way it is when they uh are operating and if they only have two employeed and one of them has to be off from work that day then the whole mine has to shut down if he's got the flu and he's out from work for a week the whole mine shut down for a week and uh people are living paycheck to paycheck and so this simply allows them to be operational if one of those Mets happen to be off if they're in a very small mine operation uh again we passed this bill I reduced it down to 10 this year I'd be glad to answer any questions if not M speaker I move passage uh I'm sorry I need to ask the cl to call committee sub one house committee sub one thank you Mr Speaker and the committee sub was work I did with the cabinet to get language in order that they were satisfied with uh and that's what the committee sub does so with that if there's no questions Mr Speaker I would move passage of House Bill 196 as amended by house committee sub one