WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 536

By Senators hunt, Deeds, Woelfel, Chapman, and Woodrum

[Introduced January 24, 2024; referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-29-15, relating to prohibiting law-enforcement officers with less than academy training from writing citations for traffic offenses on the interstate.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 29. Law-Enforcement Training and Education.

§30-29-15. Officers with less than academy training are prohibited from writing citations for traffic offenses on the interstate.

Any law enforcement officer whose training does not include successful completion and graduation from the academy shall be prohibited from writing citations for traffic offenses on the interstates of West Virginia.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law enforcement officers with less than academy training from writing citations for traffic offenses on the interstate.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.