AB 1203, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Office of Emergency Services: Fire Fighter Apprenticeship Program: training: crude oil spills.
Existing law creates the Office of Emergency Services in the office of the Governor, with specified powers and duties relative to coordinating emergency services. Existing law requires the office to contract with the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to develop a fire service specific course of instruction on the responsibilities of first responders to terrorism incidents. That law also requires the course of instruction to be developed in consultation with individuals knowledgeable about the impact of a terrorist incident, as provided.
This bill would additionally authorize the office to contract with the program to develop a course of instruction on the responsibilities of first responders to incidents involving crude oil spills by rail, and would additionally require the course of instruction to be developed in consultation with individuals knowledgeable about crude oil spills by rail.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 8588.11 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) The office shall contract with the California Fire
4Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to develop a fire service
5specific course of instruction on the responsibilities of first
6responders tobegin insert incidents involving crude oil spills by rail andend insert
7 terrorism incidents. The course shall include the criteria for the
8curriculum content recommended by the Curriculum Development
9Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 8588.10 to
10address the training needs of both of the following:
11(1) Firefighters in conformance with the standards established
12by the State Fire Marshal.
13(2) Paramedics and
other emergency medical services fire
14personnel in conformance with the standards established by the
15Emergency Medical Services Authority.
16(b) The course of instruction shall be developed in consultation
17with individuals knowledgeable about consequence management
18that addresses the topics of containing and mitigating the impact
19ofbegin insert incidents involving crude oil spills by rail orend insert a terrorist incident,
20including, but not limited to, a terrorist act using hazardous
21materials, as well as weapons of mass destruction, including any
22chemical warfare agent, weaponized biological agent, or nuclear
23or radiological agent, as those terms are defined in Section 11417
24of the Penal Code, by techniques including, but not limited to,
25rescue, firefighting, casualty treatment, and hazardous materials
26response and recovery.
27(c) The contract shall provide for the delivery of training by the
28California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program through
29reimbursement contracts with the state, local, and regional fire
30agencies who may, in turn, contract with educational institutions.
31(d) To maximize the availability and delivery of training, the
32California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program shall develop
33a course of instruction to train the trainers in the presentation of
34the first responder training of consequence management for fire
35service personnel.
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