Sen. Cristina Castro
Filed: 3/19/2021
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1714




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1714 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause  with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Fire Protection Training Act is 
5amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
 


6    (50 ILCS 740/8)  (from Ch. 85, par. 538)




7    Sec. 8. Rules and minimum standards for schools. The 
8Office
shall adopt rules and minimum standards for such

9schools which shall include, but not be limited to, the 
10following:

11        a. Minimum courses of study, resources, facilities, 
12    apparatus,
equipment, reference material, established 
13    records and procedures as
determined by the Office.

14        b. Minimum requirements for instructors.

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.

3    Those requirements shall include training in first aid 
4    (including
cardiopulmonary resuscitation), training in the 
5    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.

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; 
17101-620, eff. 12-20-19; revised 12-21-20.)".