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<subtitle article="gps" title_number="4" subtitle_number="10" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs">
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1001" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>For fiscal years 2020 through 2023, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $425,000 for Baltimore City to be used as an operating grant for the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program in Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (a) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available for the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program in Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1002" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>For fiscal years 2020 through 2023, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $360,000 for Baltimore City to be used by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office for the relocation of victims and witnesses of crime.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (a) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available for the relocation of victims and witnesses of crime in Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1003" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this section, “Department” means the Department of State Police.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>For fiscal years 2020 through 2023, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $466,600 for the Department, in coordination with the Attorney General, to form a designated unit of law enforcement officers who are selected, trained, and equipped to work as a team to investigate:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>firearm trafficking;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>straw purchases as defined in § 5–101 of this article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>the movement of illegal firearms; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>any offense related to an offense in items (1) through (3) of this subsection that may exceed the capabilities of other investigating units within the Department.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (b) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available to the Department or the Attorney General.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1004" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>For fiscal years 2020 through 2023, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $300,000 for the Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School in Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (a) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available for the Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School in Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1005" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this section, “strategic decision support center” means a facility that is equipped with technology and systems that function as intelligence centers for law enforcement and enable functions including data integration, the study of crime trends, and the development of predictive and technology–based approaches in detecting and investigating criminal activity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>For fiscal years 2020 through 2023, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $100,000 for Baltimore City to be used to support strategic decision support centers in the Eastern District and Western District of Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (b) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available for strategic decision support centers in the Eastern District and Western District of Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1007" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>For fiscal years 2020 through 2023, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $475,000 for Prince George’s County to be used by the Chief of Police for a criminal apprehension and suppression initiative focused on reducing violent crime.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (a) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available for a criminal apprehension and suppression initiative focused on reducing violent crime in Prince George’s County.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1008" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <text>A local government or nonprofit entity that receives funding under this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>may use the funding only in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>shall comply with any data sharing and reporting requirements established by the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy under § 4–1009 of this subtitle as a condition of receiving funding.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1009" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this section, “Executive Director” means the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The Executive Director shall establish outcome–based performance measures to track the performance of any activity or program supported by funds received under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <level label="1">
        <text>On or before October 1, 2020, and every October 1 thereafter, the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall place on its website in an easily accessible location a filterable data display showing all data collected under this subtitle pertaining to outcome–based performance measures under this section for the previous fiscal year.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall notify annually in writing the Governor and the Legislative Policy Committee, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, when the filterable data display has been updated under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>The Executive Director shall adopt regulations to carry out this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1010" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the Governor shall appropriate at least $2,000,000 in the annual budget bill for a grant to Roca Baltimore, LLC. </text>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1011" effective_note="EFFECTIVE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2028 PER CHAPTER 364 OF 2021" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this section, “local law enforcement agency” means:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>a police department of a county or municipal corporation in the State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the office of the sheriff that provides a law enforcement function in a county or municipal corporation in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <level label="1">
        <text>For fiscal 2024, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $2,000,000 for local law enforcement agencies to be used as grants for warrant apprehension efforts.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>For fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 for local law enforcement agencies to be used as grants to warrant apprehension efforts.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <level label="1">
        <text>The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall administer the grant funds in accordance with § 4–1008 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Local law enforcement agencies may use the grant funds for the following purposes:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>to reduce warrants in the agency’s jurisdiction;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>to increase coordination and cooperation between local law enforcement and State and federal agencies regarding outstanding warrants; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="iii">
          <text>to reduce the number of outstanding warrants related to violent crimes.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (b) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available to local law enforcement agencies for warrant apprehension efforts.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <text>An eligible local law enforcement agency that receives a grant under subsection (b) of this section shall submit for each fiscal year the following to the Executive Director:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>proof of the expenditure of the grant funds and the purposes for which the funds were expended;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>total warrants in each county by type of warrant and related offense;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>total number of warrants reduced and suspects apprehended, delineated by offense; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>any related outcome–based performance measures as required by § 4–1009 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1012" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <level label="1">
        <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>“Executive Director” means the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>“Fund” means the Officer and Community Wellness Training Grant Fund.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>“Local law enforcement agency” means a governmental police force, sheriff’s office, or security force or law enforcement organization of the State or a county or a municipal corporation of the State that by statute, ordinance, or common law is authorized to enforce the general criminal laws of the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>There is an Officer and Community Wellness Training Grant Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies for:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety training; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Critical Incident Stress Management peer support training.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall administer the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <text>For fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor may include in the annual budget bill an appropriation for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="f">
      <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="g">
      <level label="1">
        <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately and the Comptroller, in conjunction with the Executive Director, shall account for the Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="h">
      <text>Money disbursed from the Fund shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available to local law enforcement agencies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Within 90 days after the end of a grant cycle, an eligible local law enforcement agency that received a grant under this section shall submit, for the fiscal year, to the Executive Director the following:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>proof of the expenditure of the grant funds and the purposes for which the funds were expended;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the total number of grants awarded and amount per police officer;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>the total number of grants awarded separated by training program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>any related outcome–based performance measures as required by § 4–1009 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="j">
      <text>On or before December 31, 2023, and on or before each December 31 thereafter, the Executive Director shall report to the Governor and, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly on the information required by this section.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1013" effective_note="EFFECTIVE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2029 PER CHAPTER 403 OF 2026" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="10">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this section, “qualifying nonprofit organization” means an organization that:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>provides training and reentry assistance for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>provides training for at least 50 incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals per year in automotive repair;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>is able to provide an automotive repair certificate from a nationally recognized automotive repair organization to eligible participants; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>demonstrates a minimum of a 50% employment placement rate for eligible participants in a paid automotive repair job.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>For fiscal years 2026 through 2029, each year the Governor may include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to be used solely as an operating grant to qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training to formerly incarcerated individuals in automotive repair.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall administer the grant funds to qualifying nonprofit organizations in accordance with § 4–1008 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>A qualifying nonprofit organization that receives a grant under this section shall submit for each fiscal year the following to the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>proof of the expenditure of the grant funds and the purposes for which the funds were expended;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the total number of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals who received services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>any related outcome–based performance measures.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>