Senate Bill 0770e1

    SB 770                                         First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to firefighter and forestry

  3         firefighter training and certification programs

  4         (RAB); amending s. 633.35, F.S.; providing for

  5         the issuance of a special certificate for

  6         administrative and command heads; providing

  7         guidelines for certain reexaminations;

  8         providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 633.35 is

13  amended, present subsections (4) and (5) of that section are

14  renumbered as subsections (5) and (6), respectively, and a new

15  subsection (4) is added to that section, to read:

16         633.35  Firefighter and forestry firefighter training

17  and certification program.--

18         (3)  The division may issue a certificate to any person

19  who has received basic employment training for firefighters in

20  another state when the division has determined that such

21  training was at least equivalent to that required by the

22  division for approved firefighter education and training

23  programs in this state and when such person has satisfactorily

24  complied with all other requirements of this section part. The

25  division may also issue a special certificate to a person who

26  is otherwise qualified under this section and who is employed

27  as the administrative and command head of a

28  fire/rescue/emergency services organization, based on the

29  acknowledgment that such person is less likely to need

30  physical dexterity and more likely to need advanced knowledge

31  of firefighting and supervisory skills. The certificate is


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    SB 770                                         First Engrossed



  1  valid only while the person is serving in a position as an

  2  administrative and command head of a fire/rescue/emergency

  3  service organization.

  4         (4)  A person who fails an examination given under this

  5  section may retake the examination once within 6 months after

  6  the original examination date. An applicant who does not

  7  retake the examination within such time must take the Minimum

  8  Standards Course, pursuant to s. 633.35(1), before being

  9  reexamined. The division may establish reasonable

10  preregistration deadlines for such reexaminations.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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