PRINTER'S NO. 45
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 90
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MASTRIANO, BROOKS, CULVER, FONTANA, HUTCHINSON,
LAUGHLIN, ROTHMAN, STEFANO AND J. WARD, JANUARY 22, 2025
REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
JANUARY 22, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, further
3 providing for curriculum, training and education
4 certification management system.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 7383.1(g)(1) of Title 35 of the
8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is
9 amended by adding a subsection to read:
10 ยง 7383.1. Curriculum, training and education certification
11 management system.
12 * * *
13 (b.1) Entry level training and testing.--Fire and emergency
14 services training at the Firefighter I level established under
15 this section shall provide the following testing options to
16 trainees:
17 (1) a cumulative test to be completed at the end of the
18 fire and emergency services training program; or
1 (2) a test to be completed following a successive
2 training module of the program, provided that all individual
3 tests are completed in the same National Fire Protection
4 Association accreditation standard period.
5 * * *
6 (g) Annual reports.--
7 (1) The commissioner shall prepare an annual report on
8 the training and education certification management system.
9 The report shall include all of the following information:
10 (i) The total number of firefighters in the system,
11 delineated between paid and volunteer firefighter.
12 (ii) The number of firefighters under subparagraph
13 (i) who took a course on the system during the previous
14 year.
15 (iii) The number of firefighters under subparagraph
16 (i) who are certified as Firefighter [1] I, Firefighter
17 [2] II, Fire Instructor [1] I or Fire Officer [1] I.
18 (iv) A summary of courses that were taken by
19 firefighters under subparagraph (i).
20 (v) A summary of how the funds under this section
21 were expended.
22 * * *
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect in six months.
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Statutes/Laws affected: Printer's No. 0045: 35-7383.1(g)(1)