WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2586

By Delegate Staggers, Jennings, Bates and Boggs

[Introduced January 22, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Education.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-3C-4a, relating to requiring certain community and technical colleges or career and technical education centers to offer training to be a firefighter or emergency medical technician.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 3C. COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM.

§18B-3C-4a. Consortia planning districts to provide programs to train firefighters and emergency medical technicians.

The community and technical college education consortium in each planning district as identified in §18B-3C-4(c) of this code shall offer in at least one location in its district, programs of study which, if completed, would qualify a graduate to be a firefighter, a firefighter II, or an emergency medical technician.

The programs shall be established in order to admit interested students in each district to begin training to be firefighters or emergency medical technicians by September 1, 2021.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require certain community and technical college or career and technical education centers to offer training for students to become firefighters or emergency medical technicians.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.