PRINTER'S NO. 716
No. 678 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY TRAVAGLIO, M. COHEN, BELARDI, COY, STURLA, PESCI,
TRELLO, VAN HORNE, SAINATO, McCALL AND RAMOS, MARCH 2, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 2, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for reimbursement of
3 police officers' salaries.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2170(a) of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2170. Reimbursement of expenses.
9 (a) General rule.--The commission shall provide for
10 reimbursement to each municipality of the entire amount of the
11 allowable tuition and the ordinary and necessary living and
12 travel expenses incurred by their police officers while
13 attending certified municipal police basic training schools if
14 the municipality adheres to the training standards established
15 by the commission. The regular salary of police officers while
16 attending approved schools shall be paid by the employing
17 municipality. The commission shall reimburse the employing
18 municipality for 60% of the regular salaries of police officers
1 while attending schools approved under this subchapter. For the
2 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, to June 30, 2000, and for
3 each year thereafter, the commission shall reimburse the
4 employing municipality for 80% of the regular salaries of police
5 officers while attending schools approved under this subchapter.
6 The commission shall require written documentation of all
7 expenses incurred by municipalities relating to the training of
8 municipal police officers for the purposes of reimbursement by
9 the commission. All municipalities shall annually audit these
10 funds as part of their annual audit and submit a copy of the
11 audit to the commission. Failure to perform the audit and submit
12 a copy of it to the commission shall render the municipality in
13 violation of this subchapter.
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15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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