(a) Within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of this section, the state Fire Commission shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter twenty-nine-a of this code establishing criteria for qualified training programs in hazardous substance emergency response activities and procedures for such qualified training programs to be certified by the state Fire Marshal.
(b) For the purposes of this section, "hazardous substance" means any hazardous substance as defined in chapter eighty-eight, Acts of the Legislature, regular session, one thousand nine hundred eighty-five any "chemical substances and materials" listed in the rules promulgated by the commissioner of labor pursuant to section eighteen, article three, chapter twenty-one of this code, and any "hazardous waste" as defined in section three, article eighteen, chapter twenty-two of this code.