WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 658
By Senators Grady, Stollings, Baldwin, Woodrum, Romano, Rucker, Lindsay, Phillips, Baldwin, Woodrum, Romano, Rucker, Lindsay, and Phillips
[Introduced March 17, 2021;
referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary]
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 may
contract and be contracted with relating to training and operation of state
sheriff offices. The bureau may recommend policies and procedures to sheriff
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 operation of sheriff 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 shall work 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.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require 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.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.