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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6670
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 2125
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
REP. KENNEDY, 119th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE REIMBURSEMENT OF FIREFIGHTER
CERTIFICATION COSTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That chapter 104 of the general statutes be amended to provide that 1
any fire department that hires a firefighter who received firefighter 2
certification not earlier than two years before the date when such fire 3
department hires such firefighter shall reimburse fifty per cent of the 4
total cost of such certification to any other fire department that 5
employed such firefighter during such two-year period and paid for 6
such certification. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To assist fire departments with firefighter retention and saving the costs
associated with losing firefighters to other departments.