H. B. 2113
(By Delegate Trump)
[Introduced February 14, 2001
; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary 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 local police agency that hires
a person within twenty-four months of his or her training at
the state police academy to pay a percentage of the cost of
the training to the police agency that sponsored and funded
the recruit's training based upon months remaining until
twenty-four months 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 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 a local police authority in this state hires a graduate
recruit of the state police academy that was sponsored by a
different police agency within twenty-four months of the recruit's
graduation from the academy, the local police agency that hires the
graduate shall pay the sponsoring police agency the fractional
proportion of the total cost of training the recruit, based upon
the total cost distributed over a twenty-four month period. The
amount due for the training shall be calculated after ascertaining
the remaining period of time from the date of hire until
twenty-four months have elapsed: Provided, That the superintendent
of the state police shall provide an accurate and uniform
accounting based on a per day unit of cost for each graduate
recruit's training within the twenty-four month period.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require nonsponsoring
police agencies that hire graduate recruits within twenty-four
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
twenty-four month period pursuant to the remaining period of time
until the twenty-four months elapses.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.