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As Passed by the House
122nd General Assembly
Regular Session
1997-1998 | Am. Sub. S. B. No. 5 |
SENATORS HOWARD-DRAKE-B. JOHNSON-BLESSING-OELSLAGER-KEARNS-
CARNES-FINAN-DiDONATO-DIX-HAGAN-RAY-GAETH-
REPRESENTATIVES AMSTUTZ-JOHNSON-O'BRIEN-ROBERTS-MEAD-METELSKY-
CATES-PRENTISS-CORE-OPFER-VERICH-METZGER-CAREY-MALLORY-LEWIS-
BATEMAN-TERWILLEGER-SULZER-BRITTON-BOYD-PADGETT-SALERNO-
BRADING-VESPER-ROMAN-MASON-HOUSEHOLDER-OLMAN-GRENDELL-CORBIN-
REID-MYERS-LOGAN-PATTON-KREBS-TAYLOR-GARCIA-THOMAS
A BILL
To amend sections 505.371 and 505.375 and to enact sections 4742.01 to 4742.06
of the Revised Code
and to amend Section 3 of Sub.
H.B. 254 of the 118th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the
121st General Assembly,
to
establish a program of training and continuing education for
emergency service telecommunicators, to require the
state board of education to develop and administer the
program, to allow employees of emergency service providers
to receive training from the state board in the program at no
charge to the providers or employees,
to allow emergency service
providers and proprietary schools to provide training under the program,
to authorize a
board of fire district trustees of a joint fire district and
a board of
trustees of a joint fire and ambulance district to
establish charges for ambulance or emergency medical
services,
to extend by two years the
repeal date of the lifeline telephone service program, to provide
for adequate carryover balances in the Public Utilities Fund and the
Consumers' Counsel Operating Fund,
and to make an
appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 505.371 and 505.375 be amended and sections 4742.01,
4742.02, 4742.03, 4742.04, 4742.05, and 4742.06
of the Revised Code be enacted to read as
follows:
Sec. 505.371. The boards of township trustees of one or
more townships and the legislative authorities of any one or more
municipal corporations, or the
boards of township trustees of two or more townships, may, by
adoption of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of
each board of township trustees and by a majority of the members
of the legislative authority of each municipal corporation,
create a joint fire district comprising the municipal
corporations and all or any portions of the townships as are
mutually agreed upon. A joint fire district so created shall be
given a name different from the name of any participating
township or municipal corporation.
The governing body of the joint fire district shall be a
board of fire district trustees, which shall include one
representative from each board of township trustees and one
representative from the legislative authority of each municipal
corporation in the district. The board of fire district trustees
may exercise the same powers as are granted to a board of
township trustees in sections 505.37 to 505.45 of the Revised
Code, including, but not limited to, the power to levy a tax upon
all taxable property in the fire district as provided in section
505.39 of the Revised Code. The board of fire district trustees
may be compensated at a rate not to exceed thirty dollars per
meeting, not to exceed fifteen meetings per year, and may be
reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred. The board shall
employ a clerk of the board of fire district trustees.
THE BOARD OF FIRE DISTRICT TRUSTEES MAY ESTABLISH REASONABLE CHARGES FOR THE
USE OF AMBULANCE OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. THE BOARD MAY ESTABLISH
DIFFERENT CHARGES FOR RESIDENTS AND NONRESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT, AND MAY, AT
ITS DISCRETION, WAIVE ALL OR PART OF THE CHARGE FOR ANY RESIDENT OF THE
DISTRICT. THE CHARGE FOR NONRESIDENTS SHALL BE AN AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN THE
AUTHORIZED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT RATE, EXCEPT THAT IF, PRIOR TO THE
EFFECTIVE
DATE OF THIS AMENDMENT, THE BOARD HAD DIFFERENT CHARGES FOR RESIDENTS AND
NONRESIDENTS AND THE CHARGE FOR NONRESIDENTS WAS LESS THAN THE AUTHORIZED
MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT RATE, THE BOARD MAY CHARGE NONRESIDENTS LESS THAN THE
AUTHORIZED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT RATE. CHARGES COLLECTED UNDER THIS
PARAGRAPH SHALL BE KEPT IN A SEPARATE FUND DESIGNATED AS "THE AMBULANCE AND
EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SERVICES FUND," AND SHALL BE APPROPRIATED AND ADMINISTERED BY THE BOARD.
THESE
FUNDS SHALL BE USED FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE COSTS OF THE MANAGEMENT,
MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATION OF AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE
DISTRICT. AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "AUTHORIZED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT
RATE" HAS THE SAME MEANING AS IN SECTION 505.84 OF THE REVISED
CODE.
Any municipal corporation or township, or parts thereof OF
THEM,
may join an existing joint fire district by the adoption of a
resolution requesting such membership and upon approval of the
board of fire district trustees. Any municipal corporation or
township may withdraw from a joint fire district created under
this section, by the adoption of a resolution ordering
withdrawal. On or after the first day of January of the year
following the adoption of the resolution of withdrawal, the
municipal corporation or township withdrawing ceases to be a part
of such district and the power of the joint fire district to levy
a tax upon taxable property in the withdrawing township or
municipal corporation terminates, except that the joint fire
district shall continue to levy and collect taxes for the payment
of indebtedness within the territory of the joint fire district
as it was comprised at the time the indebtedness was incurred.
Upon the withdrawal of any township or municipal
corporation from a joint fire district created under this
section, the county auditor shall ascertain, apportion, and order
a division of the funds on hand, INCLUDING FUNDS IN THE AMBULANCE
AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND, moneys and taxes in the process
of collection, except for taxes levied for the payment of
indebtedness, credits, and real and personal property, either in
money or in kind, on the basis of the valuation of the respective
tax duplicates of the withdrawing municipal corporation or
township and the remaining territory of the joint fire district.
When the number of townships and municipal corporations
comprising a joint fire district is reduced to one, the joint
fire district ceases to exist by operation of law, and the funds,
credits, and property remaining after apportionments to
withdrawing municipal corporations or townships, shall be assumed
by the one remaining township or municipal corporation. When a
joint fire district ceases to exist and an indebtedness remains
unpaid, the board of county commissioners shall continue to levy
and collect taxes for the payment of such indebtedness within the
territory of the joint fire district as it was comprised at the
time the indebtedness was incurred.
Sec. 505.375. (A) The board of a joint
ambulance district created under section 505.71 of the
Revised Code
and the board of a joint fire district created under section 505.371 of the
Revised Code
may negotiate in accordance with this section to combine their two joint
districts into a single district, called a fire and ambulance
district, for the delivery of both fire and ambulance services, if the
geographic area covered by the combining joint districts is exactly the same.
Both boards shall adopt a joint resolution ratifying the
agreement and setting a date on which the fire and ambulance district shall
come into being. On that date, the joint fire district and the joint
ambulance district shall cease to exist and the power of each to levy a tax
upon taxable property shall terminate, except that any levy of a tax
for the payment of indebtedness within the territory of the joint fire or
joint ambulance district as it
was composed at the time the indebtedness was incurred shall continue to be
collected by the successor fire and ambulance district if the
indebtedness remains unpaid.
All funds and other property of the joint districts that combined into
the fire and ambulance district shall become the property of the fire
and ambulance district, unless otherwise provided in the negotiated
agreement. The agreement shall provide for the settlement of all debts and
obligations of the joint districts.
(B) The governing body of the fire and
ambulance district shall be a board of trustees of
at least three but no more than nine members, appointed as
provided in the agreement creating the district. Members of the board of
trustees may be compensated at a rate not to exceed thirty dollars per meeting
for not more than fifteen meetings per year, and may be reimbursed for all
necessary expenses incurred as provided in the agreement creating the
district.
The board shall employ a clerk and such other employees as it considers
best, including a fire chief or fire prevention officers,
and shall fix their compensation. Before entering upon the duties of
office, the clerk shall execute a bond, in the amount and with surety to be
approved
by the board, payable to the state, conditioned for the faithful
performance of all of the clerk's official duties. The clerk shall deposit
the bond with the presiding officer of the board, who shall file a copy of it,
certified by the presiding officer, with the county auditor of the county
containing the most territory in the district.
The board shall also provide for the appointment of a fiscal officer for
the district. The board may also enter into agreements with volunteer fire
companies for the use and operation of fire-fighting equipment. Volunteer
fire fighters acting under such an agreement are subject to the requirements
for volunteer fire fighters set forth in division (A) of section 505.38 of
the Revised
Code.
Employees of the district shall not be removed from office except as
provided by sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the
Revised Code, except that to initiate removal proceedings,
the board shall designate a private citizen,
or if the employee is employed as a fire fighter the board may designate
the fire chief to investigate, conduct the proceedings, and prepare the
necessary
charges in conformity with sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the
Revised Code, and except that the board shall perform the
functions and duties specified for the municipal legislative authority under
those sections. The board may pay reasonable compensation to any private
citizen hired for
services rendered in the matter.
No person shall be appointed as a permanent full-time paid member of the
district whose duties include fire fighting, or be appointed as a
volunteer fire fighter, unless that person has received a certificate issued
under former section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code
evidencing satisfactory completion of a fire fighter training program. The
board may send its officers and fire fighters to schools of instruction
designed to promote the efficiency of fire fighters, and, if authorized in
advance, may pay their necessary expenses from the funds used for the
maintenance and operation of the district.
The board may choose, by adoption of an appropriate resolution, to have the
Ohio ambulance licensing
board license any emergency medical service organization it operates. If the
board adopts such a resolution, sections 4766.01 to 4766.05 and 4766.07 to
4766.12 of the Revised Code and all rules adopted under those
sections are applicable to the organization. The board may likewise, by
resolution, remove its emergency medical service organization from the
jurisdiction of the Ohio ambulance licensing
board.
(C) The board may exercise the following powers:
(1) Purchase or otherwise provide any fire apparatus, mechanical
resuscitators, or other fire or ambulance equipment, appliances, or materials;
fire hydrants; and water supply for fire-fighting purposes that seems
advisable to the board;
(2) Provide for the care and maintenance of equipment and, for that
purpose, purchase, lease, or construct and maintain necessary buildings;
(3) Establish and maintain lines of fire-alarm communications within the
limits of the district;
(4) Appropriate land for a fire station or medical emergency unit needed
in order to respond in reasonable time to a fire or medical emergency, in
accordance with Chapter 163. of the Revised Code;
(5) Purchase, appropriate, or accept a deed or gift of land to enlarge
or improve a fire station or medical emergency unit;
(6) Purchase, lease, maintain, and use all materials, equipment,
vehicles, buildings, and land necessary to perform its duties;
(7) Contract for a period not to exceed three years with one or more
townships, municipal corporations, counties, joint fire districts,
governmental
agencies, nonprofit corporations, or private ambulance owners located either
within or outside the state, to furnish or receive
ambulance services or emergency medical services within the several
territories
of the contracting parties, if the contract is first authorized by all boards
of trustees and legislative authorities concerned;
(8) ESTABLISH REASONABLE CHARGES FOR THE USE OF AMBULANCE OR EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICES UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A BOARD OF FIRE
DISTRICT TRUSTEES MAY ESTABLISH THOSE CHARGES UNDER SECTION 505.371 OF THE
REVISED CODE;
(9) Establish all necessary rules to guard against the occurrence
of
fires and to protect property and lives against damage and
accidents;
(9)(10) Adopt a standard code pertaining to fire, fire
hazards, and fire
prevention prepared and promulgated by the state or by a public or private
organization that publishes a model or standard code;
(10)(11) Provide for charges for false alarms at commercial
establishments
in the same manner as joint fire districts are authorized to do under section
505.391 of the Revised Code;
(11)(12) Issue bonds and other evidences of indebtedness,
subject to
Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, but only after approval by a vote of the
electors of the district as provided by section 133.18 of the Revised Code;
(12)(13) To provide the services and equipment it considers
necessary, levy
a sufficient tax, subject to Chapter 5705. of
the Revised Code, on all the taxable property in the district.
(D) Any municipal corporation or
township may join an existing fire and ambulance district by its legislative
authority's adoption
of a resolution
requesting such membership and upon approval of the board of the district.
Any municipal corporation or township may withdraw from a district by its
legislative authority's adoption
of a resolution ordering withdrawal. Upon its withdrawal, the municipal
corporation or township
ceases to be a part of the district and the district's power to levy a tax on
taxable property in the withdrawing township or municipal
corporation terminates, except that the district shall continue to levy and
collect taxes for the payment of indebtedness within the territory of the
district as it was composed at the time the indebtedness was incurred.
Upon the withdrawal of any township or municipal corporation from a
district, the county auditor of the county containing the most territory in
the district shall ascertain, apportion, and order a division of the funds on
hand, INCLUDING FUNDS IN THE AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SERVICES FUND, moneys and taxes in the process of collection except for
taxes levied
for the
payment of indebtedness, credits, and real and personal property on the basis
of the valuation of the respective tax duplicates of the withdrawing
municipal
corporation or township and the remaining territory of the district.
(E) As used in this section:
(1) "Governmental agency" includes all departments, boards, offices,
commissions, agencies, colleges, universities, institutions, and other
instrumentalities of this or another state.
(2) "Emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in
section 4766.01 of the Revised
Code.
Sec. 4742.01. AS USED IN THIS CHAPTER:
(A) "EMERGENCY SERVICE
PROVIDER" HAS THE SAME MEANING AS IN SECTION 4931.40 OF THE
REVISED CODE.
(B) "EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYED BY AN EMERGENCY
SERVICE PROVIDER, WHOSE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BE AN
OPERATOR FOR THE RECEIPT OR PROCESSING OF CALLS FOR EMERGENCY
SERVICES MADE BY TELEPHONE, RADIO, OR OTHER ELECTRONIC
MEANS.
Sec. 4742.02. (A) THE STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION, IN CONJUNCTION WITH EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS, SHALL DEVELOP A
PROGRAM TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING, AND SHALL IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM NOT
MORE THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION. IN
DEVELOPING THE PROGRAM, THE STATE BOARD AND THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS
SHALL ACCEPT AND CONSIDER SUGGESTIONS FROM ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION
OR OTHER ENTITY, WHETHER LOCATED WITHIN OR
OUTSIDE OF THIS STATE, THAT OFFERS SUGGESTIONS. THE PROGRAM
SHALL INCLUDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
(1) A CURRICULUM FOR A BASIC COURSE OF EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING THAT CONFORMS TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF
DIVISION (A) OF SECTION 4742.03 OF THE REVISED
CODE;
(2) A CURRICULUM FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSEWORK IN
EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING THAT CONFORMS TO THE
REQUIREMENTS OF DIVISION (B) OF
SECTION 4742.03 OF THE REVISED
CODE;
(3) STANDARDS AND EXAMINATIONS TO BE USED IN THE PROGRAM TO CERTIFY THAT
A PERSON HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A BASIC COURSE OF, OR CONTINUING EDUCATION
COURSEWORK IN, EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING;
(4) IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM AT VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION CENTERS THAT ARE APPROVED BY THE BOARD TO OFFER
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;
(5) THE PROVISION AT LEAST EIGHT TIMES PER YEAR OF A
BASIC COURSE OF EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING AT
DIFFERENT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CENTERS AROUND THIS STATE
SELECTED TO REASONABLY ACCOMMODATE PERSONS REQUESTING THE
TRAINING;
(6) A REQUIREMENT THAT ANY EMPLOYEE OF AN EMERGENCY
SERVICE PROVIDER MAY ENROLL IN AND COMPLETE ANY COURSE
OFFERED UNDER THE PROGRAM AT NO CHARGE BY THE STATE BOARD TO THE EMPLOYEE OR
PROVIDER. THE TUITION AND MATERIALS COSTS FOR TRAINING SUCH EMPLOYEES UNDER
THE
PROGRAM SHALL BE PAID FROM THE EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING FUND CREATED UNDER DIVISION
(B) OF THIS SECTION.
(7) A REQUIREMENT THAT SPACE AVAILABLE IN EACH BASIC COURSE OFFERED BY THE
STATE BOARD SHALL BE ALLOCATED ON A PRIORITY BASIS, FIRST TO UNPAID VOLUNTEERS
OF EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS, SECOND TO PAID VOLUNTEERS OF SUCH PROVIDERS,
AND THIRD TO OTHER PERSONS;
(8) A PROVISION ALLOWING PERSONS WHO ARE NOT EMPLOYEES OF EMERGENCY
SERVICE
PROVIDERS TO ENROLL IN ANY COURSE OFFERED UNDER THE PROGRAM, ON A
SPACE-AVAILABLE BASIS. THE STATE BOARD MAY CHARGE REASONABLE TUITION TO SUCH
PERSONS TO ATTEND THE COURSE.
(B) THE EMERGENCY
SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING FUND IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN
THE STATE TREASURY. THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL USE
MONEY IN THE FUND ONLY FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:
(1) TO DEVELOP THE EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR
TRAINING PROGRAM REQUIRED UNDER DIVISION
(A) OF THIS SECTION;
(2) TO PAY THE COMPENSATION OF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION EMPLOYEES WHO
ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM AND THE STATE BOARD'S COSTS OF TRAINING EMPLOYEES OF
EMERGENCY
SERVICE PROVIDERS AT COURSES OFFERED UNDER THE
PROGRAM.
(C) THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH
CHAPTER 119. OF THE REVISED CODE, SHALL ADOPT RULES
NECESSARY TO DEVELOP AND ADMINISTER THE TRAINING PROGRAM UNDER THIS
SECTION.
Sec. 4742.03. (A) A PERSON MAY OBTAIN CERTIFICATION AS AN
EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR BY SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING A BASIC COURSE
OF EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING THAT IS CONDUCTED BY THE STATE
BOARD OF EDUCATION UNDER SECTION 4742.02 of the Revised Code. THE BASIC COURSE OF EMERGENCY
SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, BOTH
OF THE FOLLOWING:
(1) AT LEAST FORTY HOURS OF INSTRUCTION OR TRAINING;
(2) INSTRUCTIONAL OR TRAINING UNITS IN ALL OF THE
FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:
(a) THE ROLE OF THE EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR;
(b) EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS;
(c) EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR LIABILITY;
(d) TELEPHONE TECHNIQUES;
(e) REQUIREMENTS OF THE "AMERICANS WITH
DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990," 104 STAT. 327, 42
U.S.C. 12101, AS AMENDED, THAT PERTAIN TO EMERGENCY
SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATORS;
(f) HANDLING HYSTERICAL AND SUICIDAL CALLERS;
(g) LAW ENFORCEMENT TERMINOLOGY;
(h) FIRE SERVICE TERMINOLOGY;
(i) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TERMINOLOGY;
(j) EMERGENCY CALL PROCESSING GUIDES
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT;
(k) EMERGENCY CALL PROCESSING GUIDES
FOR FIRE SERVICE;
(l) EMERGENCY CALL PROCESSING GUIDES
FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE;
(m) RADIO BROADCAST TECHNIQUES;
(n) DISASTER PLANNING;
(o) POLICE OFFICER SURVIVAL, FIRE OR
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SCENE SAFETY, OR BOTH POLICE OFFICER
SURVIVAL AND FIRE OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SCENE
SAFETY.
(B) A PERSON MAY MAINTAIN CERTIFICATION AS AN EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR BY SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING AT LEAST EIGHT HOURS OF CONTINUING
EDUCATION COURSEWORK IN EMERGENCY
SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING DURING EACH TWO-YEAR PERIOD AFTER A PERSON
FIRST OBTAINS THE CERTIFICATION REFERRED TO IN DIVISION (A) OF THIS
SECTION. THE CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSEWORK SHALL CONSIST OF REVIEW AND
ADVANCED TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION IN THE SUBJECTS LISTED IN
DIVISION (A)(2) OF THIS
SECTION.
(C) IF A PERSON SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES THE BASIC COURSE OF
EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (A)
OF THIS SECTION, THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OR A DESIGNEE OF THE BOARD SHALL
CERTIFY THE PERSON'S SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION. THE BOARD SHALL SEND A COPY OF
THE CERTIFICATION TO THE PERSON AND TO THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER BY WHOM
THE PERSON IS EMPLOYED.
IF A PERSON SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES THE CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSEWORK
DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (B) OF THIS SECTION, THE STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION OR A DESIGNEE OF THE BOARD SHALL CERTIFY THE PERSON'S SUCCESSFUL
COMPLETION. THE BOARD SHALL SEND A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATION TO THE PERSON
AND TO THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER BY WHOM THE PERSON IS EMPLOYED.
Sec. 4742.04. (A) A PERSON MAY
OBTAIN CERTIFICATION AS AN EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR BY SUCCESSFULLY
COMPLETING
A BASIC COURSE OF EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING
THAT IS CONDUCTED BY OR UNDER THE DIRECTION OF AN EMERGENCY
SERVICE PROVIDER. PRIOR TO SUCH A COURSE BEING CONDUCTED, THE
EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL CERTIFY THAT THE COURSE MEETS
THE REQUIREMENTS OF DIVISION (A) OF SECTION 4742.03 OF THE
REVISED CODE. IF A PERSON SUCCESSFULLY
COMPLETES THE COURSE, THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL
CERTIFY THE PERSON'S SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.
(B) A PERSON MAY
MAINTAIN CERTIFICATION AS AN EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR BY
SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSEWORK IN EMERGENCY SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING THAT IS CONDUCTED BY OR UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER. PRIOR TO SUCH
COURSEWORK BEING CONDUCTED, THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL
CERTIFY THAT THE COURSEWORK MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF DIVISION
(B) OF SECTION 4742.03 OF THE
REVISED CODE. IF A PERSON SUCCESSFULLY
COMPLETES THE COURSEWORK, THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL
CERTIFY THE PERSON'S SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.
(C) UPON CERTIFICATION OF A PERSON UNDER DIVISION (A) OR
(B) OF THIS SECTION, THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER THAT CERTIFIES
THE PERSON SHALL SEND A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATION TO THE PERSON AND TO THE
EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER BY WHOM
THE PERSON IS EMPLOYED UNLESS THE EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER CERTIFYING THE
PERSON IS THE PERSON'S EMPLOYER.
Sec. 4742.05. (A) A PROPRIETARY
SCHOOL THAT HOLDS A VALID CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION FROM THE STATE BOARD OF
PROPRIETARY SCHOOL REGISTRATION MAY APPLY TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR
CERTIFICATION OF A BASIC COURSE OF EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING
OR OF CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSEWORK IN EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR
TRAINING. THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL PRESCRIBE THE FORM OF THE
APPLICATION.
(B) UPON RECEIPT OF AN APPLICATION, THE
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL REVIEW IT AND CONSIDER WHETHER THE PROPOSED
COURSE OR COURSEWORK MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF DIVISION
(A) OR (B) OF
SECTION 4742.03 OF THE REVISED
CODE CONCERNING COURSE LENGTH AND CONTENT. IF
THE PROPOSED COURSE OR COURSEWORK MEETS THOSE REQUIREMENTS, THE STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION SHALL ISSUE A CERTIFICATION OF THAT FACT TO THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL.
INCLUSION OF ON-SITE VERIFIABLE ELECTRONIC TRAINING AS PART OF A PROPOSED BASIC
OR CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE SHALL NOT BE A REASON FOR THE STATE BOARD TO
DENY CERTIFICATION.
(C) IF, AFTER RECEIVING A CERTIFICATION
FROM THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION UNDER THIS SECTION, THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL
CHANGES THE APPROVED COURSE OR COURSEWORK, THE PRIOR CERTIFICATION IS CANCELED
AND THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL SHALL APPLY TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR
CERTIFICATION OF THE CHANGED COURSE OR COURSEWORK.
Sec. 4742.06. (A) A PERSON MAY OBTAIN
CERTIFICATION AS AN EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR BY SUCCESSFULLY
COMPLETING A BASIC COURSE OF EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING THAT
IS CONDUCTED BY A PROPRIETARY SCHOOL THAT HAS OBTAINED CERTIFICATION OF THAT
COURSE FROM THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION UNDER SECTION 4742.05 OF THE
REVISED CODE.
IF A PERSON SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES THE COURSE, THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL SHALL
CERTIFY THE PERSON'S SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.
(B) A PERSON MAY MAINTAIN CERTIFICATION
AS AN EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR BY SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING CONTINUING
EDUCATION COURSEWORK IN EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING THAT IS
CONDUCTED BY A PROPRIETARY SCHOOL THAT HAS OBTAINED CERTIFICATION OF THAT
COURSEWORK FROM THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION UNDER SECTION 4742.05 OF THE
REVISED CODE.
IF A PERSON SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES THE COURSEWORK, THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL
SHALL CERTIFY THE PERSON'S SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.
(C) UPON CERTIFICATION OF A PERSON'S
SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION UNDER DIVISION (A) OR
(B) OF THIS SECTION, THE PROPRIETARY SCHOOL
SHALL SEND A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATION TO THE PERSON AND TO THE EMERGENCY
SERVICE PROVIDER THAT EMPLOYS THE PERSON.
(D) TUITION AND MATERIALS COSTS FOR A PERSON ENROLLED IN A
CERTIFIED BASIC OR CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE CONDUCTED BY A PROPRIETARY
SCHOOL SHALL BE PAID BY THE PERSON, AN EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER, OR ANY
OTHER
ENTITY ON BEHALF OF THE PERSON OR AN EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDER.
Section 2. That existing sections 505.371 and 505.375 of
the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Within ten working days after
the effective date of this section, the
Department of Education shall request the Controlling Board to transfer
$250,000 cash in fiscal year 1998 from the General
Revenue Fund line item 911-430, Emergency 9-1-1 Training, to the Emergency
Service Telecommunicator Training Fund (Fund
4M4) to be used by the Department of Education pursuant to section 4742.02 of
the Revised Code. The Department of Education shall request the Controlling
Board to transfer the same amount of cash to be used for
the same purpose within ten working days after July 1, 1998.
Section 4. All items in this section are hereby appropriated as designated out
of moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the State Special Revenue
Fund Group. For all appropriations made in this act, those in the first
column are for fiscal year 1998 and those in the second column are for fiscal
year 1999. The appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other
appropriations made for the 1997-1999 biennium.
EDU DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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State Special Revenue Fund Group | | | | |
4M4 | 200-637 | Emergency Service Telecommunicator Training Fund | $ | 250,000 | $ | 250,000 |
Total State Special Revenue Fund Group | $ | 250,000 | $ | 250,000 |
TOTAL ALL BUDGET FUND GROUPS | $ | 250,000 | $ | 250,000 |
Emergency Service Telecommunicator Training
The foregoing appropriation item 200-637, Emergency Service Telecommunicator
Training Fund, shall be used by the Department of Education for the purpose of
developing an emergency service telecommunicator training program and to pay
the costs of training employees of emergency service providers at courses
offered under the program, pursuant to section 4742.02 of the Revised Code.
Notwithstanding the requirements of section 4742.02 of the Revised Code, the
Department of Education may reduce required activities pursuant to those
sections in order that program expenditures not exceed $250,000 in either
fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999.
Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of Budget and Management
shall establish accounts indicating the source and amount of funds for each
appropriation made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in
which appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from
appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as though made by
H. B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly.
The appropriations made in this act are subject to all provisions of
H. B. 215 for the 1997-1999 biennium that are generally
applicable to the
State Special Revenue Fund Group.
Section 5. That Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 254 of the
118th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 121st General
Assembly, be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. That sections 4905.76, 4905.77, 4905.78, 4905.84,
4905.85, 4909.50, and 5727.43 of the Revised Code are
hereby
repealed, effective January 1 DECEMBER 31,
1998 1999.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE REPEAL OF SECTION 5727.43 OF THE
REVISED CODE,
A TELEPHONE COMPANY MAY CLAIM THE CREDIT AUTHORIZED BY THAT SECTION THROUGH
DECEMBER 31, 1999, FOR THE PUBLIC UTILITY
EXCISE TAX PRIVILEGE YEAR MEASURED FROM JULY
1, 1999, TO JUNE 30, 2000."
Section 6. That existing Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 254 of
the 118th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 121st
General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
Section 7. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this act, the codified
and uncodified sections of law contained in this act
are not subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution,
Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the codified and
uncodified sections of law contained in this act, except as otherwise
specifically provided in this act, go into immediate effect when
this act becomes law.
Section 8. Sections 505.371 and 505.375 of the Revised Code, as amended by
this act, are subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution,
Article II, Section 1c and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the sections as
amended take effect on the ninety-first day after this act is filed with the
Secretary of State. If, however, a referendum petition is filed against the
sections as amended, the sections as amended, unless rejected at the
referendum, take effect at the earliest time permitted by law.
Section 9. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the second paragraph
of division (B) of section 4905.10 of the Revised Code as amended by Am. Sub.
H. B. 215 of the 122nd General Assembly, the amount that the Director of
Budget
and Management is required to transfer back to the General Revenue Fund from
the Public Utilities Fund for the 1998 fiscal year shall be reduced by the
amount of any credits given to the railroads and public utilities during the
1998 fiscal year.
Section 10. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the fourth paragraph
of section 4911.18 of the Revised Code as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the
122nd General Assembly, the amount that the Director of Budget and Management
is required to transfer back to the General Revenue Fund from the Consumers'
Counsel Operating Fund not later than December 31, 1997, shall be reduced by
the amount of any credits given to public utility companies during the 1998
fiscal year.
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