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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="11-503" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Higher Education Commission" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Fire-Rescue Education and Training Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the authority of the Secretary, the Commission shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Keep minutes of its meetings and any other records it considers necessary;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Cooperate with and assist schools in coordinating and improving all emergency services education and training activities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Cooperate with the University of Maryland in developing a program for accrediting emergency services instructors;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Consult with emergency services instructors and personnel to develop minimum uniform education and training standards for emergency services instructors, personnel, and schools;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Cooperate with schools to help standardize course content and reciprocity of college credits for emergency services education and training;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Cooperate with appropriate government agencies to develop and maintain a current master plan for emergency services education and training;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Cooperate with the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to develop and operate a system for collecting, analyzing, and exchanging information on emergency services education and training;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Encourage, promote, and review new techniques, methods, and procedures for emergency services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Cooperate with and review material from other states and federal agencies on emergency services education and training;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Recommend to the Secretary rules and regulations necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purposes and objectives of the Commission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Review any proposed or adopted national standards or certification programs for emergency services and recommend to the Secretary the actions that should be taken regarding them;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Prepare an annual report on the activities of the Commission to the Secretary, the Governor, and, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Provide a place of storage for the records of the Commission and the original Governor’s Commission on Fire Services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Maryland Higher Education Commission shall provide staff services for the Commission.</text>
  </level>
</section>
