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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 789
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 6153
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING REIMBURSEMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
UNITS FOR TRAINING COSTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 7-294dd of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019): 2
(a) For purposes of this section, "police officer", "certification" and 3
"law enforcement unit" have the same meanings as provided in section 4
7-294a and "cost of certification" means the cost of training, equipment, 5
uniforms, salary and fringe benefits and any cost related to the entry 6
level requirements established by the Police Officer Standards and 7
Training Council associated with the police officer, except that "cost of 8
certification" does not include the cost of any equipment or uniforms 9
that were returned by such officer. 10
(b) Whenever a police officer obtains certification while employed 11
by a law enforcement unit and is subsequently hired by another law 12
enforcement unit on or after July 1, 2016, and within two years of such 13
officer obtaining such certification, the law enforcement unit hiring the 14
police officer shall reimburse the initial law enforcement unit fifty per 15
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cent of the total cost of certification. The provisions of this section shall 16
not apply to a law enforcement unit that hires a police officer two 17
years or more after such officer obtains certification. No law 18
enforcement unit may require a police officer to pay any portion of the 19
reimbursement cost prescribed in this subsection unless the police 20
officer and law enforcement unit have agreed to the requirement prior 21
to July 1, 2019. No collective bargaining agreement entered into on or 22
after July 1, 2019, shall require a police officer to pay any portion of the 23
reimbursement cost prescribed in this subsection. 24
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect an agreement 25
between a police officer or a collective bargaining unit and a law 26
enforcement unit entered into prior to July 1, 2016, that provides for 27
the reimbursement of the cost of certification. 28
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 7-294dd
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit a law enforcement unit from requiring a police officer to
pay any portion of the costs of the officer's certification that the law
enforcement unit must pay to another unit.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.; SEN. WINFIELD, 10th Dist.
REP. WALKER, 93rd Dist.; REP. PORTER, 94th Dist.
REP. CANDELARIA, 95th Dist.; REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist.
REP. PAOLILLO, 97th Dist.; REP. DIMASSA, 116th Dist.
REP. DILLON, 92nd Dist.; REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
REP. MICHEL, 146th Dist.
S.B. 789