[ Text of section added by 2019, 5, Sec. 7 effective March 29, 2019.]

Section 2DDDDD. There shall be a Technical Rescue Services Fund. The fund shall be administered by the technical rescue coordinating council established under section 6 of chapter 22D. The fund shall consist of: (i) compensation received under a contract including, but not limited to, a contract with a company that designates a member fire department as a stand-by rescue team in order to meet the requirements established by the federal United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration under 29 C.F.R. 1910; (ii) funds collected pursuant to a cost recovery mechanism established in subsection (d) of said section 6 of said chapter 22D; (iii) federal, state or private gifts, grants, donations or appropriations; (iv) funds from any other public or private sources; and (v) interest earned on such funds.

Amounts credited to the fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and shall be expended for: (i) the maintenance and operation of technical rescue regions established under said section 6 of said chapter 22D; (ii) the provision of technical rescue services; (iii) the acquisition and maintenance of technical rescue equipment; and (iv) the provision of initial and in-service training to regional technical rescue personnel including, but not limited to, payment of backfill and overtime for personnel participating in such training. Amounts credited to the fund that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in the following fiscal year. An expenditure shall not be made from the fund if the expenditure would cause the fund to become deficient at the end of any fiscal year.

Annually, not later than June 30, the technical rescue coordinating council, established pursuant to said section 6 of said chapter 22D, shall report to the secretary of public safety and security, the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the joint committee on public safety and homeland security and the house and senate committees on ways and means. The report shall include, but not be limited to, an accounting of all funds received and distributed as authorized by this section.