H. B. 3041
(By Delegate Keener)
[Introduced March 28, 2001; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section eight, article twenty-nine,
chapter thirty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring
employees receiving law-enforcement training and certification
to continue employment for at least two years or reimburse
employer for wages and expenses of training.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eight, article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
§30-29-8. Compensation for employees attending law-enforcement
training academy; limitations; agreements to
reimburse employers for wages and expenses of
employees trained but not continuing employment.
A West Virginia law-enforcement agency shall pay compensation
to employees, including wages, salaries, benefits, tuition and expenses for the employees' attendance at a law-enforcement
training academy. The compensation paid to the employees of a
law-enforcement agency for attendance at a law-enforcement training
academy as provided in this section shall may not include overtime
compensation under the provisions of section three, article five-c,
chapter twenty-one of this code and shall be at the regular rate to
which the employee would be entitled for a workweek of forty hours
in regular employment with the agency. In consideration for such
this compensation, the county commission or municipal government
may require of its employees by written agreement entered into with
each of them in advance of such attendance at a training academy
that, if an employee should voluntarily discontinue discontinues
employment any time within one year two years immediately following
completion of the training curriculum, he or she shall be is
obligated to pay to such the county commission or municipal
government a pro rata portion of the sum of such compensation equal
to that part of such the year which the employee has chosen not to
remain in the employ of the county commission or municipal
government.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
require employees
receiving law-enforcement training and certification to continue
employment for at least two years or reimburse the employer for
wages and expenses of training.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.