Bill Text: IL HB2215 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act. Provides that the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall maintain on its website a link to an educational program or literature for fire fighters in the history of the fire service labor movement. Provides that the training shall be completed by each fire fighter. Provides that entities responsible for the training of fire fighters may request that such educational program be presented in person by a statewide organization representing professional union fire fighters in the State. Defines "fire fighter". Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0252 [HB2215 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2215-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Fire Protection Training Act is
amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
(50 ILCS 740/8) (from Ch. 85, par. 538)
Sec. 8. Rules and minimum standards for schools. The Office
shall adopt rules and minimum standards for such schools which
shall include but not be limited to the following:
a. Minimum courses of study, resources, facilities,
apparatus, equipment, reference material, established
records and procedures as determined by the Office.
b. Minimum requirements for instructors.
c. Minimum basic training requirements, which a
trainee must satisfactorily complete before being eligible
for permanent employment as a fire fighter in the fire
department of a participating local governmental agency.
Those requirements shall include training in first aid
(including cardiopulmonary resuscitation), and training in
the administration of opioid antagonists as defined in
paragraph (1) of subsection (e) of Section 5-23 of the
Substance Use Disorder Act, and for firefighters hired
under Division 2.1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal

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Code, under Section 10-1-7.1 of the Illinois Municipal
Code, or under Section 16.06b of the Fire Protection
District Act, training in the history of the fire service
labor movement using curriculum provided by a statewide
organization representing professional union firefighters
in the State. The organization may also provide
instructors.
(Source: P.A. 99-480, eff. 9-9-15; 100-759, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.