LRB-0913/P3
CMH:cjs:jf
2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Ley, BB0240 - Correctional officer pre-service training standards board
For 2015-2017 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Corrections
Current law requires a person to complete a preservice training program approved by DOC before being permanently appointed as a correctional officer. This bill creates a Preservice Training Standards Board to certify persons as having met the standards that qualify them to be correctional officers.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 15.145 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
15.145 (6) Preservice training standards board. (a) There is created a preservice training standards board which is attached to the department of corrections under s. 15.03.
(b) The board shall be composed of 8 members as follows:
1. The secretary of corrections, or his or her designee, who shall serve as the chair and cast the deciding vote if needed.
2. The training director at the department of corrections.
3. The security chief at the department of corrections, or his or her designee.
4. One department of corrections employee from the division of community corrections.
5. One department of corrections employee from the division of juvenile corrections.
6. One representative from the department of health services.
7. One representative of the Wisconsin technical college system.
8. One member of the public who resides in Wisconsin and who is not employed in corrections or law enforcement.
(c) The member of the board under par. (b) 8. shall be appointed for staggered 4-year terms. No member shall serve beyond the time when the member ceases to hold the office, employment, or status by reason of which the member was initially eligible for appointment.
Section
2. 301.28 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
301.28 (2) (b) No person may be permanently appointed as a correctional officer unless the person has satisfactorily completed a preservice training program approved by the department preservice training standards board. The preservice training standards board shall establish a process to certify persons as having met the professional standards that qualify them to be correctional officers.
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