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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1714
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1714 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Fire Protection Training Act is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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| 6 | (50 ILCS 740/8) (from Ch. 85, par. 538)
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| 7 | Sec. 8. Rules and minimum standards for schools. The | ||||||
| 8 | Office
shall adopt rules and minimum standards for such
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| 9 | schools which shall include, but not be limited to, the | ||||||
| 10 | following:
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| 11 | a. Minimum courses of study, resources, facilities, | ||||||
| 12 | apparatus,
equipment, reference material, established | ||||||
| 13 | records and procedures as
determined by the Office.
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| 14 | b. Minimum requirements for instructors.
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| 15 | c. Minimum basic training requirements, which a | ||||||
| 16 | trainee must
satisfactorily complete before being eligible | ||||||
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| 1 | for permanent employment
as a firefighter in the fire | ||||||
| 2 | department of a participating local
governmental agency.
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| 3 | Those requirements shall include training in first aid | ||||||
| 4 | (including
cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and , training in | ||||||
| 5 | the administration of opioid antagonists as defined in | ||||||
| 6 | paragraph (1) of subsection (e) of Section 5-23 of the | ||||||
| 7 | Substance Use Disorder Act, and training in the history of | ||||||
| 8 | the fire service labor movement using curriculum and | ||||||
| 9 | instructors provided by a statewide organization | ||||||
| 10 | representing professional union firefighters in Illinois.
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| 11 | d. Training in effective recognition of and responses | ||||||
| 12 | to stress, trauma, and post-traumatic stress experienced | ||||||
| 13 | by firefighters that is consistent with Section 25 of the | ||||||
| 14 | Illinois Mental Health First Aid Training Act in a peer | ||||||
| 15 | setting. | ||||||
| 16 | (Source: P.A. 100-759, eff. 1-1-19; 101-375, eff. 8-16-19; | ||||||
| 17 | 101-620, eff. 12-20-19; revised 12-21-20.)".
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