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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5666
January Session, 2021
AN ACT CONCERNING GR ANTS TO DISTRESSED M UNICIPALITIES
FOR THE TRAINING OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTE RS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2021) (a) Not later than January 1, 1
2022, and annually thereafter, the chief of a volunteer fire department 2
for a distressed municipality, as defined in section 32-9p of the general 3
statutes, shall submit to the State Fire Administrator a report on the 4
yearly average of the number of volunteer firefighters from such 5
municipality's volunteer fire department who enrolled in Firefighter I 6
certification and recruit training based on the preceding four years, 7
except the year commencing January 1, 2020, shall not be included in 8
any such four preceding years for purposes of calculating such average. 9
(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year 10
thereafter, the State Fire Administrator shall award a grant to any 11
distressed municipality with a volunteer fire department for the 12
purposes of covering costs related to the provision of Firefighter I 13
certification and recruit training for volunteer firefighters at regional fire 14
schools. The amount of such grant award for each such distressed 15
municipality shall be equal to the product of (1) the average cost of a 16
Firefighter I certification and recruit training program at a regional fire 17
school, and (2) the average number of volunteer firefighters from such 18 Substitute Bill No. 5666
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distressed municipality's volunteer fire department who enrolled at a 19
regional fire school for such certification and training. 20
(c) Not later than February 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, the State 21
Fire Administrator shall submit, in accordance with the provisions of 22
section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of 23
the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to 24
appropriations and the budgets of state agencies a report on the (1) 25
reports submitted by the chiefs of volunteer fire departments of 26
distressed municipalities pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, and 27
(2) average cost of a Firefighter I certification and recruit training 28
program at a regional fire school. 29
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 New section
APP Joint Favorable Subst.