PRINTER'S NO. 2748
No. 2182 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY TRAVAGLIO, TANGRETTI, WALKO, MELIO, MANDERINO,
SCRIMENTI, WOZNIAK, STURLA, SURRA, VEON, M. COHEN, ITKIN,
DeWEESE, JOSEPHS, GIGLIOTTI AND SAINATO, OCTOBER 31, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 31, 1995
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," further providing for reimbursement
11 of police officers' salaries.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Section 10(a) of the act of June 18, 1974
15 (P.L.359, No.120), referred to as the Municipal Police Education
16 and Training Law, amended December 21, 1988 (P.L.1865, No.180),
17 is amended to read:
18 Section 10. Reimbursement of Expenses.--(a) The commission
19 shall provide for reimbursement to each political subdivision of
20 one hundred per cent of the allowable tuition and the ordinary
21 and necessary living and travel expenses incurred by their
22 police officers while attending certified municipal police basic
1 training schools, providing said political subdivision adheres
2 to the training standards established by the commission. The
3 regular salary of police officers while attending approved
4 schools, within the meaning of this act, shall be paid by the
5 employing political subdivision. Fifty per cent of the regular
6 salaries of police officers while attending approved schools
7 within the meaning of the act shall be reimbursed by the
8 commission to the employing political subdivision. For the
9 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1989, to June 30, 1990, [and for
10 each year thereafter] through the fiscal year July 1, 1995, to
11 June 30, 1996, sixty per cent of the regular salaries of police
12 officers while attending approved schools within the meaning of
13 this act shall be reimbursed by the commission to the employing
14 political subdivision. For the fiscal year beginning July 1,
15 1996, to June 30, 1997, and for each year thereafter, eighty per
16 cent of the regular salaries of police officers while attending
17 approved schools within the meaning of this act shall be
18 reimbursed by the commission to the employing subdivision. The
19 commission shall require written documentation of all expenses
20 incurred by political subdivisions relating to the training of
21 municipal police officers for the purposes of reimbursement by
22 the commission. All municipalities shall annually audit these
23 funds as part of their annual audit and submit a copy of such
24 audit to the commission. Failure to perform the audit and submit
25 a copy of it to the commission shall render the municipality in
26 violation of this act.
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28 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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