SUMMARY

This bill changes the formula regarding reimbursement of law enforcement officer training costs that a governmental entity must pay to another governmental entity when a law enforcement officer who is a recent graduate of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy changes employers. Current law bases this formula on a percentage of the training costs depending upon when the law enforcement officer graduated. The bill bases this formula on specified dollar amounts depending upon when the law enforcement officer graduated.

This bill provides that a governmental entity that hires a law enforcement officer who recently graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy while on the payroll of another governmental entity does not have to reimburse that other governmental entity for training costs if that law enforcement officer has not worked as a law enforcement officer for a period of at least one year.