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Relating to continued annual training requirements for certain volunteer fire fighters
Topics:Public safety & emergencies
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 15, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 20, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 1, 2023
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Volunteer firefighters in small towns with fewer than 20,000 people could meet their yearly training requirements by completing a certain percentage of their required hours. To qualify, the firefighter must have served for a specific number of years, earn less than $5,000 a year, and get permission from their fire chief.1
Read the official explanation
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 February 20, 2023. On February 22, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. [].
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- SF 2045 Relating to continued annual training requirements for certain volunteer fire fighters89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
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