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Senate Bill No. 43
(By Senator Rowe)
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[Introduced January 14, 2004; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend
the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §30-29-11
, relating
to law-enforcement training and certification generally; and
requiring a police agency hiring a police officer within three
years of the police officer's graduation from an approved
law-enforcement training academy to reimburse a portion of the
costs of that training paid by another police agency if
different from the hiring police agency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-29-11, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
§30-29-11. Certain law-enforcement agencies to reimburse certain
training costs to other law-enforcement agencies.
A West Virginia law-enforcement agency employing a graduate of
an approved law-enforcement training academy
within three years of
the graduate's date of certification
, whose training was paid for
by another West Virginia law-enforcement agency, shall reimburse
the law-enforcement agency paying the cost of the training, a
fractional proportion of the total cost of training the graduate
equal to an amount based on the portion of that part of the
three-year period during which the officer is employed. The chief
executive of the approved law-enforcement training academy
shall,
upon request, provide an accurate and uniform accounting to the
involved law-enforcement agencies, based on a per day unit of cost
for the graduate's training, including expenses for required
travel, clothing and equipment.
The reimbursement of law-enforcement academy training costs
may be waived at the election of the law-enforcement agency
originally paying the cost of the officer's training.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require a police agency
hiring a police officer within three years of the officer's
graduation from an approved law enforcement training academy
to
reimburse the sponsoring police agency, if different from the
hiring police agency, a proportional share of the cost of the
training of that police officer.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.
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