H. B. 2954
(By Delegate Rowe)
[Introduced February 26, 1999; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]
A BILL to amend article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
ten, relating to requiring any West Virginia law-enforcement
agency which hires a person within three years of his or her
training at the West Virginia law-enforcement training
academy to pay a percentage of the cost of such training to
the West Virginia law-enforcement agency which had sponsored
and funded the graduate's training based upon time remaining
until three years have passed.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section ten, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
§30-29-10. Requirement for local or state police agency to pay
proportional cost of graduate's cost of training
at state police academy upon hiring a graduate
sponsored by a different police agency.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in
the event that a West Virginia law-enforcement agency employs a
graduate of a law-enforcement training academy as provided in
this article, who was sponsored by a different West Virginia
law-enforcement agency, any time within three years of the
graduate's date of certification, the nonsponsoring West
Virginia law-enforcement agency hiring that graduate, shall pay
to the county or municipal West Virginia law-enforcement agency
which sponsored the graduate, a fractional proportion of the
total cost of training the graduate equal to the portion of that
part of the three-year period during which the graduate is or
will be in the employ of the nonsponsoring West Virginia
law-enforcement agency. The law-enforcement official of the
law-enforcement training academy shall, upon request, provide an
accurate and uniform accounting to both the sponsoring and the
non-sponsoring West Virginia law-enforcement agencies, based on
a per day unit of cost for the graduate's training, including expenses for required travel, clothing and equipment: Provided,
That the sponsoring West Virginia law-enforcement agency
may elect to waive reimbursement of law-enforcement academy
training costs as provided by this section.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require nonsponsoring
police agencies that hire graduate recruits within thirty-six
months from the date they graduated from the state police
academy, to pay a proportional cost of the training to the
sponsoring police agency that funded the training, broken down
into equal and uniform per day cost units based on the number of
days within the thirty-six month period pursuant to the remaining
period of time until the thirty-six months elapses.
Section ten is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.