PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 31 PRINTER'S NO. 956
No. 30 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. FRYER, WEIDNER, LEVI, GAMBLE, KNIGHT AND
A. C. FOSTER, JR., JANUARY 24, 1979
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MARCH 27, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359, No.120), entitled
2 "An act creating the Municipal Police Officers' Education and
3 Training Commission; providing for the commission's
4 membership, selection, compensation, and removal; providing
5 for the powers and duties of the commission; providing for
6 the appointment and duties of the chairman; providing for the
7 act's applicability to the civil service laws; requiring
8 training by certain political subdivisions and police
9 departments; providing penalties for violation thereof; and
10 making an appropriation," providing for courses of study and
11 training of part-time police officers in municipalities other
12 than cities of the second class, CERTAIN CITIES OF THE THIRD <--
13 CLASS and other than officers of counties of the second
14 class, providing that regulations pertaining to such training
15 be sent to the Chairmen of the Local Government Committee of
16 both the Senate and the House of Representatives and further
17 providing for reimbursement.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Section 2, act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359,
21 No.120), referred to as the Municipal Police Education and
22 Training Law, is amended by adding a definition to read:
23 Section 2. Definitions.--As used in this act:
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25 (7) "Part-time police officer" means an officer whose
1 average hours of work as a police officer per week is thirty <--
2 TWENTY-FOUR hours or less in a municipality other than a city of <--
3 the second class, OR A CITY OF THE THIRD CLASS WITH A POPULATION <--
4 OF 25,000 OR MORE, and other than officers of a county police
5 force of a county of the second class.
6 Section 2. Paragraph (1) of section 5 of the act, is amended
7 and section 5 is amended by adding paragraphs to read:
8 Section 5. Powers and Duties of the Commission.--The powers
9 and duties of the commission shall be as follows:
10 (1) To establish the minimum courses of study and training
11 for municipal police officers: Provided, That the courses of
12 study and training of a part-time police officer shall be one
13 hundred twenty hours to be completed within two years.
14 (1.1) Part-time police officers who have begun the present
15 four hundred eighty hour course of study and training shall
16 receive full credit for all courses which they have completed
17 and which are part of the new one hundred twenty hour program
18 described in paragraph (1).
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20 (7) A copy of all rules and regulations pertaining to the
21 course of study and training provided for part-time police
22 officers in paragraph (1) shall be sent to the Chairman of the
23 Local Government Committee in the Senate and to the Chairman of
24 the Local Government Committee in the House of Representatives
25 thirty days before such rules and regulations are published in
26 the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
27 (8) TO ADOPT AS A REGULATION A SEQUENTIAL TYPE CURRICULUM, <--
28 BEGINNING WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT COURSES, FOR PART-TIME
29 POLICEMEN. BEFORE THE CURRICULUM IS ADOPTED, IT SHALL BE
30 SUBMITTED TO THE CHIEF CLERK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF
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1 REPRESENTATIVES WHO SHALL CAUSE THE REGULATIONS TO BE PRINTED
2 AND DISTRIBUTED AMONG ALL MEMBERS OF BOTH CHAMBERS IN THE SAME
3 MANNER AS A REORGANIZATION PLAN. IF BOTH BODIES FAIL TO ACT
4 WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF RECEIPT OF SUCH REGULATION, OR WITHIN TEN
5 LEGISLATIVE DAYS AFTER RECEIPT, WHICHEVER SHALL LAST OCCUR, THE
6 REGULATION SHALL BE PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
7 THE ACT OF JULY 31, 1968 (P.L.769, NO.240), REFERRED TO AS THE
8 COMMONWEALTH DOCUMENTS LAW AND 45 PA.C.S. PART II (RELATING TO
9 PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMONWEALTH DOCUMENTS). IF
10 EITHER CHAMBER DISAPPROVES THE REGULATION, SUCH INFORMATION
11 SHALL BE CERTIFIED BY THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
12 REPRESENTATIVES OR PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE TO THE
13 DEPARTMENT, AND SUCH REGULATION SHALL NOT BE PROMULGATED AS A
14 FINAL REGULATION.
15 Section 3. Subsection (a) of section 10 of the act is
16 amended to read:
17 Section 10. Reimbursement of Expenses.--(a) The commission,
18 through the commissioner, shall provide for reimbursement to
19 each political subdivision of one hundred per cent of the
20 allowable tuition and the ordinary and necessary living and
21 travel expenses incurred by their officers while attending
22 [certified] municipal police basic training schools which meet
23 the certification standards of the commission, providing said
24 political subdivision adheres to the training standards
25 established by the commission. The regular salary of police
26 officers while attending approved schools, within the meaning of
27 this act, shall be paid by the employing political subdivision.
28 Fifty per cent of the regular salaries of police officers while
29 attending approved schools within the meaning of the act shall
30 be reimbursed by the commission to the employing political
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1 subdivision. This act shall not be construed to preclude the
2 employing political subdivision from applying for grants from
3 the Governor's Justice Commission under the Omnibus Crime
4 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for the payment of salary
5 to a substitute police officer while the permanent officer is
6 attending such school.
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8 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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