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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5776

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senator Pullen)

Read first time 3/1/89.

AN ACT Relating to law enforcement training; amending RCW 35.21.333 and 43.101.200; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 4, chapter 339, Laws of 1987 and RCW 35.21.333 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) A person seeking appointment to the office of chief of police or marshal, whether a full-time or part-time office, of a city or town, including a code city, with a population in excess of one thousand, is ineligible unless that person:

          (a) Is a citizen of the United States of America;

          (b) Has obtained a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma;

          (c) Has not been convicted under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States of a felony;

          (d) Has not been convicted of a gross misdemeanor or any crime involving moral turpitude within five years of the date of application;

          (e) Has received at least a general discharge under honorable conditions from any branch of the armed services for any military service if the person was in the military service;

          (f) Has completed at least two years of regular, uninterrupted, full-time commissioned law enforcement employment involving enforcement responsibilities with a government law enforcement agency; and

          (g) The person has been certified as a regular and commissioned enforcement officer through compliance with this state's basic training requirement or equivalency.

          (2) A person seeking appointment to the office of chief of police or marshal, of a city or town, whether a full-time or part-time office, including a code city, with a population of one thousand or less, is ineligible unless that person conforms with the requirements of subsection (1) (a) through (e) of this section.  A person so appointed as chief of police or marshal must successfully complete the state's basic training requirement or equivalency within nine months after such appointment, unless an extension has been granted by the criminal justice training commission.

          (3) A person appointed as chief of police or marshal of any city or town, including a code city, regardless of population, is also subject to the basic training requirement of RCW 43.101.200.

(4) A person seeking appointment to the office of chief of police or marshal shall provide a sworn statement under penalty of perjury to the appointing authority stating that the person meets the requirements of this section.

        Sec. 2.  Section 2, chapter 212, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 43.101.200 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) All law enforcement personnel, except volunteers, and reserve officers whether paid or unpaid, initially employed on or after January 1, 1978, shall engage in basic law enforcement training which complies with standards adopted by the commission pursuant to RCW 43.101.080 and 43.101.160.  For personnel initially employed before January 1, 1990, such training shall be successfully completed during the first fifteen  months of employment of such personnel unless otherwise extended or waived by the commission and shall be requisite to the continuation of such employment.  Personnel initially employed on or after January 1, 1990, shall commence basic training during the first six months of employment unless the basic training requirement is otherwise waived or extended by the commission.  Successful completion of basic training is requisite to the continuation of employment of such personnel initially employed on or after January 1, 1990.

          (2) The commission shall provide the aforementioned training together with necessary facilities, supplies, materials, and the board and room of noncommuting attendees for seven days per week.  Additionally, the commission shall reimburse to participating law enforcement agencies with ten or less full-time commissioned patrol officers the cost of temporary replacement of each officer who is enrolled in basic law enforcement training:  PROVIDED, That such reimbursement shall include only the actual cost of temporary replacement not to exceed the total amount of salary and benefits received by the replaced officer during his training period.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     Section 1 of this act shall take effect on January 1, 1990.