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Judiciary panel advances bill requiring quarterly firearms simulation training for municipal police
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee voted to report House Bill 1604 as amended after debate over scope and implementation. The amendment would expand a quarterly firearms and simulation training requirement to municipal police across the commonwealth and require the commission to make simulation training available at least twice per year.
House Bill 1604, introduced by Representative Delosa, was reported out of the House Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote after the panel adopted an amendment to expand the training requirement statewide for municipal police.
The bill as described by committee counsel would “amend Title 53 to require quarterly firearms training for law enforcement officers in a county of the second class A with a population between 565,600” and place officers who fail to complete the training on administrative leave until training is completed. Committee counsel also described Amendment 01901, offered by Chairman Briggs, which “will apply the quarterly training requirement to all municipal…
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