Bill Text: NY A10311 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in consultation with New York state fire service organizations, to develop a plan to increase the number of skills required as part of the Firefighter certification, or the Firefighter Recruit I and II certifications, which can be completed at a trainee's home department or online.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - signed chap.410 [A10311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10311-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10311--B
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 10, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  directing the commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security
          and Emergency Services to develop a plan to  increase  the  number  of
          skills required as part of the Firefighter certification, or the Fire-
          fighter  Recruit  I and II certifications, which can be completed at a
          trainee's home department or online
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  1.  The commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security
     2  and Emergency Services, in consultation with New York state fire service
     3  organizations, and any other entity  the  commissioner  of  Division  of
     4  Homeland  Security and Emergency Services deems appropriate, shall study
     5  the feasibility of teaching skills currently required to be taught in an
     6  academic setting, or training center through an electronic  or  internet
     7  course  or  at  the  trainee's  fire department.   Such study shall also
     8  include, but not be limited to, the coursework required to test for  the
     9  Firefighter  certification,  or the Firefighter Recruit I and II certif-
    10  ications, as defined in part 426 of title 19  of  the  New  York  Codes,
    11  Rules  and Regulations (NYCRR), the cost or savings that could be attri-
    12  buted to training through electronic or internet course or at the train-
    13  ee's fire department, costs or savings of required  training  equipment,
    14  ways  to decrease the number of certified instructors and certified fire
    15  training programs needed. In reviewing the coursework, the  study  shall
    16  examine the practices of other governmental entities to compare training
    17  standards  and  include  recommendations, if any, to enhance Firefighter
    18  certification in the state of New York.
    19    2. Such study shall be delivered to the governor, the speaker  of  the
    20  assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the senate
    21  veterans,  homeland  security  and military affairs committee and to the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13942-06-8

        A. 10311--B                         2
     1  chair of the assembly governmental operations committee within 9  months
     2  of the effective date of this act.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become law.
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