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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7373--C
Cal. No. 849
IN SENATE
January 10, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported
favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,
ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
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.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. Such study shall be delivered to the governor, the speaker of the
2 assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the senate
3 veterans, homeland security and military affairs committee and to the
4 chair of the assembly governmental operations committee within 9 months
5 of the effective date of this act.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
7 have become law.
