Senate Bill No. 127
(By Senator Rowe, Mitchell and Caldwell)
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[Introduced January 10, 2002; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization; 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.