Bill Text: VA SB761 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Law-enforcement officers; training, reimbursement of costs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-05 - Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) [SB761 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-SB761-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Title 9.1 a chapter numbered 14, consisting of sections numbered 9.1-1400 and 9.1-1401, as follows:
§9.1-1400. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Law-enforcement agency" means (i) a police department or sheriff's office of a political subdivision of the Commonwealth or (ii) an agency of the Commonwealth that hires a law-enforcement officer in a law-enforcement capacity.
"Law-enforcement officer" has the same meaning as set forth in §9.1-101.
§9.1-1401. Reimbursement for certain law-enforcement expenses.
If a law-enforcement officer who has completed basic law-enforcement training at an academy certified by the Department of Criminal Justice Services leaves the law-enforcement agency that funded such training within five years of completion of the training to take a job at another law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth, the hiring law-enforcement agency shall reimburse the agency that funded the training for the costs of the training of such law-enforcement officer. The amount owed shall be reduced by one-fifth of the total cost of the training for each year that the officer worked for the agency that funded the cost of the training. Each fiscal year, each law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth shall calculate the cost of training an officer in basic law-enforcement training, and such figure shall be the basis for calculating the amount of an agency's liability for hiring an officer from another law-enforcement agency who completed basic training during that fiscal year.
