WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 658
By Senators Grady, Stollings, Baldwin, Woodrum, Romano, Rucker, Lindsay, and Phillips
[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary; reported on March 19, 2021]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-26-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the West Virginia Sheriffs’ Bureau of Professional Standards working with the sheriffs of each county of the state to actively participate in and utilize all components of the Handle With Care Program to help trauma-inflicted children in the public or private school system.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
§7-26-2. General powers and duties; legislative rules.
(a) The bureau shall have the power to contract
and be contracted with relating to training and operation of state sheriff
offices may enter into contracts regarding training and operation of
state sheriffs’ offices. The bureau may recommend policies and procedures
to sheriffs’ offices, including, but not limited to, those that promote
cooperation between all state and local law-enforcement officers, eliminate
duplication of work, promote the proper and efficient operation of the office
of the sheriff, and which seek to standardize operations of sheriffs’ offices
throughout the state. The bureau may propose legislative rules which adopt a
standard badge, uniform, and color for the motor vehicles used by the various
sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of West Virginia.
(b) The bureau may assist the sheriffs of each county of the state to provide Handle With Care program training to law-enforcement supervisors and patrols and to actively participate in and use all law enforcement-related components of the Handle With Care program to help trauma-inflicted children in the public or private school systems.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Sheriffs' Bureau Of Professional Standards assist the sheriffs of each county of the state to provide training and actively participate in and use all law enforcement components of the “Handle With Care” program to help trauma-inflicted children in the public or private school system.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.