Bill Text: PA HB1319 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for Pennsylvania State Fire Academy.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 24-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB1319 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1319-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1772
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1319 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY DENLINGER, AUMENT, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CLYMER, CUTLER, DAVIDSON, FLECK, GEIST, GILLEN, GINGRICH, HESS, HICKERNELL, JOSEPHS, LAWRENCE, MAJOR, MILLER, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, STERN, STEVENSON, STURLA, SWANGER AND TAYLOR, MAY 5, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, MAY 5, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for Pennsylvania
State Fire Academy.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7384(d) of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, added November 23, 2010 (P.L. ,
No.118), is amended to read:
§ 7384. Pennsylvania State Fire Academy.
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(d) Firefighter training and certification.--A Statewide
firefighter training program shall be implemented by the
commissioner to educate the fire service community about the
importance of firefighter health and safety. This program shall
include measures designed to increase the mobility of training
courses throughout this Commonwealth, to enhance firefighter
accessibility to training course offerings and to improve and
expand training for and response capability to emergencies with
emphasis on hazardous materials incidents. The program shall
also include implementation of a firefighter certification
program in accordance with parameters developed by the
commissioner consistent with established standards. Firefighter
certification standards developed by the State Fire Commissioner
shall not violate a person's religious freedoms. The acquisition
of physical resources to enhance Statewide capability shall be
coordinated by the commissioner.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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