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Senate bill would add dispatchers and incidental reimbursements to public‑safety education fund; department and training council support expansion
Summary
SB 59 would expand an existing recruitment and retention program to include public‑safety telecommunicators (dispatchers), allow reimbursement for noncredit training, and create a nonlapsing fund for incidental police‑academy costs with a $125,000 appropriation. Department of Safety and Police Standards support the changes.
Senator David Waters described Senate Bill 59 as a set of technical and substantive changes to an existing recruitment and retention program that reimburses community‑college courses and fire‑academy costs for prospective police, fire, EMTs and corrections officers. The bill would add public‑safety telecommunicators (dispatchers) to the eligible groups, allow reimbursement for noncredit training, and create a nonlapsing fund to cover incidental police‑academy costs.
Waters said the program began with a $1,000,000 appropriation and had early uptake: by the committee's first report through July it enrolled about 46 people, and enrollments —…
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