Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

Cmte Sub for House Bill No. 1207

BY: Representative Hines

Amend on line 74 by inserting after "SECTION 5.", the following: "(1)"

Further, amend after line 100, by inserting the following:

     "(2)  The Office of Workforce Development is authorized to enter into a memorandum of agreement with any public or nonpublic school which provides secondary education to students enrolled therein, for the purpose of allowing students who are at least seventeen (17) years of age to be eligible for enrollment in any accredited paramedic training program without any cost to the students, through a dual-credit or dual-enrollment class offerings through an accredited entity authorized by the office to provide such trainings for purposes of the program.  However, such students shall not be eligible to take any examination for certification as a paramedic until the time that he or she attains the age of eighteen (18), at which time he or she would be allowed to take the certification examination to become a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)."

     Further, amend the title to conform.