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<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>
