2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Act 33 - HEALTH AND SAFETY (35 PA.C.S.) - CURRICULUM, TRAINING AND EDUCATION CERTIFICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Session of 2025
No. 2025-33
SB 90
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, further providing for curriculum, training and education certification management system.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7383.1(g)(1) of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 7383.1. Curriculum, training and education certification management system.
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(b.1) Entry level training and testing.--Fire and emergency services training at the Firefighter I level established under this section shall provide the following testing options to trainees:
(1) a cumulative test to be completed at the end of the fire and emergency services training program; or
(2) a test to be completed following a successive training module of the program, provided that all individual tests are completed in the same National Fire Protection Association accreditation standard period.
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(g) Annual reports.--
(1) The commissioner shall prepare an annual report on the training and education certification management system. The report shall include all of the following information:
(i) The total number of firefighters in the system, delineated between paid and volunteer firefighter.
(ii) The number of firefighters under subparagraph (i) who took a course on the system during the previous year.
(iii) The number of firefighters under subparagraph (i) who are certified as Firefighter [1] I, Firefighter [2] II, Fire Instructor [1] I or Fire Officer [1] I.
(iv) A summary of courses that were taken by firefighters under subparagraph (i).
(v) A summary of how the funds under this section were expended.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in six months.
APPROVED--The 7th day of July, A.D. 2025.
JOSH SHAPIRO