Bill Text: WV HB5318 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Clarifying that elected municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-02-19 - To Government Organization [HB5318 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5318-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 5318
By Delegates Kelly, Hott, Ward, Kump, Fehrenbacher, Mallow, Hornby, Phillips, Jeffries, Pinson, and Kirby
[Introduced January 29, 2024; Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-29-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to municipal chief executive requirements; and clarifying that persons elected as municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
§30-29-13. Chief executive requirements.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, on or after July 1, 2018, any person elected or appointed to serve as the chief executive of a municipal law-enforcement agency shall be a certified, or certifiable as, a law-enforcement officer as provided in §30-29-5 of this code: Provided, That chief executives of municipal law-enforcement agencies employed prior to July 1, 2018, who are not certified law-enforcement officers are exempt from this requirement for purposes of the position he or she holds as of that date.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify that elected municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
