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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
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 
17    for permanent employment
as a firefighter in the fire 
18    department of a participating local
governmental agency.

19    Those requirements shall include training in first aid 
20    (including
cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and , training in 
21    the administration of opioid antagonists as defined in 
22    paragraph (1) of subsection (e) of Section 5-23 of the 
23    Substance Use Disorder Act, and training in the history of 
 
 
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1    the fire service labor movement using curriculum and 
2    instructors provided by a statewide organization 
3    representing professional union firefighters in Illinois.

4        d. Training in effective recognition of and responses 
5    to stress, trauma, and post-traumatic stress experienced 
6    by firefighters that is consistent with Section 25 of the 
7    Illinois Mental      Health First Aid Training Act in a peer 
8    setting. 
9(Source: P.A. 100-759, eff. 1-1-19; 101-375, eff. 8-16-19; 
10101-620, eff. 12-20-19; revised 12-21-20.)