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1     AN ACT concerning fire protection districts.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
5 adding Section 16.08b as follows:
 
6     (70 ILCS 705/16.08b new)
7     Sec. 16.08b. Emergency medical technician licensure. The
8 board of trustees of a fire protection district may require
9 that all firefighters hired on or after the effective date of
10 this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly by any fire
11 department within the district must be licensed as an EMT-B,
12 EMT-I, or EMT-P under the Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) Act.