The Commissioner of Public Safety or the commissioner's designee, the Attorney General or the Attorney General's designee, the Game Warden Colonel in the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife or the Game Warden Colonel's designee and the Commissioner of Corrections or the commissioner's designee are members of the board during their terms of office. A designee of an ex officio member is a member of the board only during the term of office of the ex officio member who designated the designee. All of the other members of the board serve for a term of 3 years. A trustee holds office for the term for which the trustee is appointed or until the trustee's successor had been appointed and qualified. Members of the board are entitled to compensation in accordance with Title 5, chapter 379. Any vacancy on the board of trustees must be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, but for the unexpired term.

Sec. 8. 25 MRSA §2803-A, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1999, c. 630, §1, is further amended to read:

1. Training and certification of all law enforcement officers in State. In accordance with this chapter, to establish training and certification standards for all law enforcement officers, set requirements for board-approved courses, prescribe curriculum and certify both graduates of board-approved courses and persons for whom the board has waived the training requirements of this chapter. Certification must be based on the officer's demonstration of having acquired specific knowledge and skills directly related to job performance.;

No later than March 1, 1995, the board shall design joint training and certification standards combining into a single basic training course the present State Police course and the basic municipal and county course. The joint training course must equal or exceed any curriculum training requirements of the State Police effective on December 31, 1994. The board shall report its recommendations and the necessary implementing legislation for a basic training course to the Legislature by April 1, 1995. The Legislature must approve the associated costs of the joint training course before it may be implemented.