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Bill to standardize POST deadlines advances after brief committee hearing
Summary
House Bill 75 would standardize the one-year academy completion grace period across POST disciplines and clarify equivalency provisions; the Senate Judiciary Committee concurred with the House version during executive action.
Representative Steve Gist opened the hearing on House Bill 75, saying the measure comes from the Montana Public Safety Officer Standards and Training (POST) Council and would establish a uniform one-year period for new appointees to complete required basic training when they return after more than five years out of service.
The nut graf: witnesses from POST explained the bill is cleanup language to align training deadlines across different certified disciplines (corrections, detention, probation/parole and law enforcement) so that all groups receive the same one-year grace period and the law clearly reflects existing equivalency provisions for law enforcement after three years.
Timothy Allred, director of the POST Council, said current law requires law enforcement appointees to complete the academy within one year of appointment and permits an equivalency after three years; the bill would standardize the same one-year grace period for other POST-certified disciplines. "In review in the law, we wanted to make this standardized," Allred told the committee. Sheriff Jesse Slaughter, who said he serves as chair of the POST Council, also supported the bill as a clarifying change.
The committee heard no opponents or informational witnesses. At executive action the committee moved to concur with the House on House Bill 75; the motion passed and the committee recorded a proxy yes vote from Senator Newman.
