ASSEMBLY, No. 1421
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 1996
By Assemblymen IMPREVEDUTO and STEELE
An Act concerning reimbursement of police dispatcher training and certification costs and amending P.L.1987, c.47.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1987, c.47 (C.40A:14-178) is amended to read as follows:
1. Whenever a person who resigned as a member of a county or municipal police department, sheriff's office, or corrections department, or as a police or civilian dispatcher, is appointed to the police department , sheriff's office, or corrections department of another county or municipality or the police department of an educational institution pursuant to P.L.1970, c.211 (C.18A:6-4.2 et seq.), or as a police or civilian dispatcher, within 120 days of resignation, and that person held a probationary appointment at the time of resignation or held a permanent appointment for 30 days or less prior to resignation, the county or municipality or educational institution appointing the person is liable to the former county or municipal employer, as appropriate, for the total certified costs incurred by the former employer in the examination, hiring, and training of the person.
Whenever a person who resigned as a member of a county or municipal police department , sheriff's office, or corrections department , or as a police or civilian dispatcher, is appointed to the police department , sheriff's office, or corrections department of another county or municipality or the police department of an educational institution pursuant to P.L.1970, c.211 (C.18A:6-4.2 et seq.), or as a police or civilian dispatcher, within 120 days of resignation, and that person, at the time of resignation held a permanent appointment for more than 30 days but less than two years, the county or municipality or educational institution appointing the person is liable to the former county or municipal employer, as appropriate, for one-half of the total certified costs incurred by the former employer in the examination, hiring and training of that person.
The appointing county or municipality or educational institution shall notify the former employer immediately upon the appointment of a former employee and shall reimburse the former employer within 120 days of the receipt of the certified costs.
For the purposes of this act, "examination costs" means and includes, but is not limited to, the costs of all qualifying examinations and the public advertisements for these examinations, and "training costs" means the police , sheriff, or corrections officer, or police or civilian dispatcher training course fees and the base salary received while attending the [police] training course, as required by P.L.1961, c.56 (C.52:17B-66 et seq.).
(cf: P.L.1989, c.40, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides for the reimbursement of the training costs incurred by a county, municipality or educational institution when a trained police dispatcher is hired by another county, municipality or educational institution.
This bill would require a county, municipality or educational institution that hires a police dispatcher within 120 days of the dispatcher's resignation from another county, municipality or educational institution to reimburse the former employer the certified costs of the dispatcher's qualifying examinations, training course fees and base salary received while attending the training course. Under the bill, if the dispatcher resigned from a probationary appointment or held a permanent appointment for 30 days or less at the time of resignation, the hiring entity would be required to reimburse the former employer 100% of the certified costs. Furthermore, if the dispatcher resigned from a permanent appointment held for more than 30 days but less than two years, the bill would require the hiring entity to reimburse the former employer 50% of the certified costs.
Finally, the bill would require the hiring entity to reimburse the former employer within 120 days of the hiring entity's receipt of the certified costs from the former employer.
Requires reimbursement of sheriff's officer, corrections officer, and civilian and police dispatcher training and certification costs from appointing authority to former employer.