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Introduced Version House Bill 3041 History

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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.
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