Arkansas 2025 Regular Session

Arkansas House Bill HB1421 Compare Versions

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3	3	State of Arkansas 1
4	4	95th General Assembly A Bill 2
5	5	Regular Session, 2025 HOUSE BILL 1421 3
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7	7	By: Representative Unger 5
8	8	By: Senator J. Bryant 6
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10	10	For An Act To Be Entitled 8
11	11	AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LAW ENFORCEMENT 9
12	12	OFFICER TRAINING REIMBURSEMENT; TO INCLUDE ANY LAW 10
13	13	ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE ARKANSAS 11
14	14	COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDARDS AND TRAINING; 12
15	15	AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 13
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18	18	Subtitle 16
19	19	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LAW 17
20	20	ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TRAINING 18
21	21	REIMBURSEMENT; AND TO INCLUDE ANY LAW 19
22	22	ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE 20
23	23	ARKANSAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT 21
24	24	STANDARDS AND TRAINING. 22
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26	26	BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 24
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28	28	SECTION 1. Arkansas Code § 12 -9-209 is amended to read as follows: 26
29	29	12-9-209. Reimbursement for training costs or expenses. 27
30	30	(a)(1) If a county, city, town, or state agency, or other law 28
31	31	enforcement agency recognized by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement 29
32	32	Standards and Training pays the costs or expenses for training a law 30
33	33	enforcement officer at a state -funded or municipally operated law enforcement 31
34	34	training academy and another county, city, town, or state agency, or other 32
35	35	law enforcement agency recognized by the commission employs that law 33
36	36	enforcement officer within eighteen (18) months after completion of the 34
37	37	training in a position requiring a certificate of training from a state -35
38	38	funded or municipally operated law enforcement training academy, the county, 36 HB1421
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41	41	city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency recognized by 1
42	42	the commission that employs the law enforcement officer, at the time of 2
43	43	employing the law enforcement officer, shall reimburse the county, city, 3
44	44	town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency recognized by the 4
45	45	commission for all or a portion of the costs or expenses incurred by the 5
46	46	county, city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency 6
47	47	recognized by the commission for the training of the law enforcement officer 7
48	48	at the state-funded or municipally operated law enforcement training academy, 8
49	49	unless the law enforcement officer has been terminated by the county, city, 9
50	50	town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency recognized by the 10
51	51	commission that paid the costs or expenses of training, in which case no 11
52	52	reimbursement is required from the county, city, town, or state agency, or 12
53	53	other law enforcement agency recognized by the commission employing the law 13
54	54	enforcement officer. 14
55	55	(2) Reimbursement may be sought only from the first county, 15
56	56	city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency recognized by 16
57	57	the commission that employed the law enforcement officer after the county, 17
58	58	city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency recognized by 18
59	59	the commission paid the costs or expenses of training. 19
60	60	(3) Reimbursement shall include any salary, travel expenses, 20
61	61	food, lodging, or other costs required to be paid by the county, city, town, 21
62	62	or state agency, or other law enforcement agency recognized by the commission 22
63	63	as follows: 23
64	64	(A) If the law enforcement officer is employed within two 24
65	65	(2) months after completion of the training, the employing agency shall 25
66	66	reimburse the total of the costs or expenses of training; 26
67	67	(B) If the law enforcement officer is employed more than 27
68	68	two (2) months but not more than six (6) months after completion of the 28
69	69	training, the employing agency shall reimburse eighty percent (80%) of the 29
70	70	costs or expenses of training; 30
71	71	(C) If the law enforcement officer is employed more than 31
72	72	six (6) months but not more than ten (10) months after completion of the 32
73	73	training, the employing agency shall reimburse sixty percent (60%) of the 33
74	74	costs or expenses of training; 34
75	75	(D) If the law enforcement officer is employed more than 35
76	76	ten (10) months but not more than fourteen (14) months after completion of 36 HB1421
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79	79	the training, the employing agency shall reimburse forty percent (40%) of the 1
80	80	costs or expenses of training; or 2
81	81	(E) If the law enforcement officer is employed more than 3
82	82	fourteen (14) months but not more than eighteen (18) months after completion 4
83	83	of the training, the employing agency shall reimburse twenty percent (20%) of 5
84	84	the costs or expenses of training. 6
85	85	(b)(1) If any county, city, town, or state agency, or other law 7
86	86	enforcement agency recognized by the commission that employs a law 8
87	87	enforcement officer whose costs or expenses of training were paid by another 9
88	88	county, city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency 10
89	89	recognized by the commission fails to make reimbursement for the costs or 11
90	90	expenses of training as required in subsection (a) of this section, the 12
91	91	county, city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency 13
92	92	recognized by the commission entitled to reimbursement shall notify the 14
93	93	Treasurer of State. 15
94	94	(2) The Treasurer of State shall then withhold the amount of the 16
95	95	reimbursement due for training the law enforcement officer from the county or 17
96	96	municipal aid of the employing county, city, town, or state agency, or other 18
97	97	law enforcement agency recognized by the commission or from funds 19
98	98	appropriated to the employing state agency and shall remit the amount to the 20
99	99	county, city, town, or state agency, or other law enforcement agency 21
100	100	recognized by the commission that is entitled to the reimbursement under the 22
101	101	provisions of this section. 23
102	102	(c)(1) A private community with a population of more than five 24
103	103	thousand (5,000) persons that employs certified law enforcement officers is 25
104	104	entitled to reimbursement under this section and may remit the reimbursed 26
105	105	costs or expenses under subsection (a) of this section to an entity 27
106	106	contracting with the private community that paid the training costs or 28
107	107	expenses of the certified law enforcement officers. 29
108	108	(2) As used in this subsection, “private community” means the 30
109	109	same as defined in § 14 -14-814. 31
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