Senate Bill No. 145
(By Senator Rowe)
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[Introduced February 16, 2001; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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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 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 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 nonsponsoring 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 36 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 36 month
period pursuant to the remaining period of time until the 36 months
elapses.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.