For immediate release:
June 27, 2008

State Representative Bill Cochran appointed to 2008 legislative study committees

INDIANAPOLIS —— House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer (D-South Bend) has appointed Southern Indiana lawmakers to various study committees which will meet this summer and fall.

"Members of the Southern Indiana delegation will play critical roles on the interim study committees," said Bauer. "These legislators have a wealth of knowledge and experience that will greatly benefit the committees as critical issues are researched and thoroughly discussed. The interim study committees are vital to the legislative process."

Bauer said the study committees gather and analyze information, then compile reports for the General Assembly. Those reports are due Nov. 1, 2008.

Bauer added that the much of the information will become subjects of future legislative action.

STATE REP. SANDY BLANTON (D-Orleans), Indiana House District 62, has been appointed to the Joint Study Committee on Mass Transit & Transportation Alternatives, Learner's Permits & Graduated Driver's Licenses, Military Base Planning Council, Orange County Development Advisory Board, and the Regulatory Flexibility Committee.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE BILL COCHRAN (D-New Albany), Indiana House District 72, returns to the Budget Committee and the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission.

STATE REP. TERRY GOODIN (D-Crothersville), Indiana House District 66, will be a member of the Interim Study Committee on Education Matters, the Military Base Planning Council, the Property Tax Replacement Fund Board, and the School Property Tax Control Board.

STATE REP. PAUL ROBERTSON, (D-Depauw), Indiana House District 70, was reappointed to the Interim Study Committee on Education Matters, the ISTEP Program Citizens' Review Committee, the Natural Resources Study Committee, and the Regulatory Flexibility Committee.

STATE REP. STEVEN R. STEMLER (D-Jeffersonville), Indiana House District 71, was again named to the Advisory Council to the Bureaus of Lands & Cultural Resources and Water & Resource Regulation, the Health Care Account Advisory Board, the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission, and the Water Resources Study Committee.

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