An Act To Allow a Public Safety Answering Point To Be Reimbursed for Training Costs
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 0474
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: DILLINGHAM, HAMPER, HEAD, HERRICK, PICKETT, WINSOR
Amends: 25 MRSA §2936

Legislative Document
No. 474
H.P. 337
House of Representatives, February 9, 2017
An Act To Allow a Public Safety Answering Point To Be 
Reimbursed for Training Costs
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative DILLINGHAM of Oxford.
Cosponsored by Senator HAMPER of Oxford and
Representatives: HEAD of Bethel, HERRICK of Paris, PICKETT of Dixfield, WINSOR of 
Norway.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  25 MRSA §2936 is enacted to read: 
§2936.  Sharing of training costs for dispatchers 
Whenever a full-time dispatcher has received the basic training provided to full-time 
dispatchers by the bureau at the expense of a particular public safety answering point and 
is subsequently hired by another public safety answering point as a full-time dispatcher 
within 5 years of the end of the dispatcher's training, the public safety answering point 
shall reimburse the first public safety answering point according to the formula under this 
section, unless a mutual agreement is reached. 
1.  Full amount of cost.  If the dispatcher is hired by the other public safety 
answering point during the first year after the end of the dispatcher's training, that public 
safety answering point shall reimburse the first public safety answering point the full 
amount of the training costs. 
2.  Eighty percent of costs.  If the dispatcher is hired by the other public safety 
answering point during the 2nd year after the end of the dispatcher's training, that public 
safety answering point shall reimburse the first public safety answering point 80% of the 
training costs. 
3.  Sixty percent of costs.  If the dispatcher is hired by the other public safety 
answering point during the 3rd year after the end of the dispatcher's training, that public 
safety answering point shall reimburse the first public safety answering point 60% of the 
training costs. 
4.  Forty percent of costs.  If the dispatcher is hired by the other public safety 
answering point during the 4th year after the end of the dispatcher's training, that public 
safety answering point shall reimburse the first public safety answering point 40% of the 
training costs. 
5.  Twenty percent of costs.  If the dispatcher is hired by the other public safety 
answering point during the 5th year after the end of the dispatcher's training, that public 
safety answering point shall reimburse the first public safety answering point 20% of the 
training costs. 
6.  No obligation.  If the dispatcher ended training more than 5 years before 
subsequently being hired by the other public safety answering point, that public safety 
answering point is not obligated to reimburse the first public safety answering point. 
If the dispatcher is subsequently hired by additional public safety answering points 
within 5 years of the end of the dispatcher's training, each of those public safety 
answering points is liable to the public safety answering point immediately preceding it 
for the training costs paid by that public safety answering point under this section.  The 
extent of financial liability must be determined according to the formula established by 
this section. 
SUMMARY 
This bill provides for the reimbursement, in full or in part, of a public safety 
answering point's training costs for a dispatcher who finds employment at another public 
safety answering point within 5 years of completion of training by the Emergency 
Services Communication Bureau within the Public Utilities Commission.