H. B. 2658
(By Delegates Armstead, Walters, Carmichael,
Wells, Lane and Spencer)
[Introduced
January 11, 2006
; referred to the
Committee on Political Subdivisions then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §30-29-11
, relating
to requiring any law-enforcement agency hiring a person within
three years of his or her training at the West Virginia
Law-enforcement Training Academy to pay a fraction of the cost
of such training to the Law-enforcement Agency sponsoring and
funding the graduate's training.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That
the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-29-11
, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
§30-29-11. 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, either the total cost or a fractional
proportion of the total cost of training the graduate as follows:
(1) If the officer is employed within one year of graduation
from the academy by the nonsponsoring agency, the nonsponsoring
agency shall reimburse the sponsoring agency all of the training
costs; and
(2) If the officer is employed within two years of graduation
from the academy
by the nonsponsoring agency, the nonsponsoring
agency shall reimburse the sponsoring agency two thirds of the
training costs; and
(3) If the person is employed within three years of graduation
from the academy
by the nonsponsoring agency, the nonsponsoring
agency shall reimburse the sponsoring agency one third of the cost.
For the purpose of this section, costs include the actual training
costs and salary paid by the sponsoring agency during the training. 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 three years from
the date they graduated from the State Police Academy, to pay a
share of cost of the training to the sponsoring police agency that
funded the training.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.