SB 90 — An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, further providing for curriculum, training and education certification management system.

PRINTER'S NO.   45

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 90
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY MASTRIANO, BROOKS, CULVER, FONTANA, HUTCHINSON,
        LAUGHLIN, ROTHMAN, STEFANO AND J. WARD, JANUARY 22, 2025

     REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
        JANUARY 22, 2025


                                       AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, further
 3      providing for curriculum, training and education
 4      certification management system.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    Section 7383.1(g)(1) of Title 35 of the
 8   Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is
 9   amended by adding a subsection to read:
10   § 7383.1.    Curriculum, training and education certification
11                management system.
12      * * *
13      (b.1)    Entry level training and testing.--Fire and emergency
14   services training at the Firefighter I level established under
15   this section shall provide the following testing options to
16   trainees:
17          (1)    a cumulative test to be completed at the end of the
18      fire and emergency services training program; or
 1          (2)   a test to be completed following a successive
 2    training module of the program, provided that all individual
 3    tests are completed in the same National Fire Protection
 4    Association accreditation standard period.
 5    * * *
 6    (g)   Annual reports.--
 7          (1)   The commissioner shall prepare an annual report on
 8    the training and education certification management system.
 9    The report shall include all of the following information:
10                (i)    The total number of firefighters in the system,
11          delineated between paid and volunteer firefighter.
12                (ii)    The number of firefighters under subparagraph
13          (i) who took a course on the system during the previous
14          year.
15                (iii)    The number of firefighters under subparagraph
16          (i) who are certified as Firefighter [1] I, Firefighter
17          [2] II, Fire Instructor [1] I or Fire Officer [1] I.
18                (iv)    A summary of courses that were taken by
19          firefighters under subparagraph (i).
20                (v)    A summary of how the funds under this section
21          were expended.
22          * * *
23    Section 2.        This act shall take effect in six months.




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