SF 2045: Relating to continued annual training requirements for certain volunteer fire fighters

What it does

This bill relates to continued annual training requirements for certain volunteer fire fighters. Under current law, the fire service training bureau offers programs to volunteer, trainee, or employed fire fighters with minimum instruction requirements for certification. The bill provides that a member of a volunteer fire department may be deemed to have completed the member’s continued annual training requirements upon completion of percent of the required training hours if the person has served as a volunteer fire fighter for at least years, receives no more than $5,000 in annual compensation for service as a volunteer fire fighter, serves a population of less than 20,000, and has approval from the chief of the volunteer fire department.

Senate subcommittee · named January 20, 2022

• Sen. Jeff Reichman (R) · jeff.reichman@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Waylon Brown (R)
• Sen. Eric Giddens (D)

Lobbying · 1 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Firefighters Association (IFA)

In plain words

1. January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the State Government committee
2. January 20, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Reichman, Brown and Giddens