LRB-1208/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Schmidt, BB0144 - Law Enforcement Recruitment, Retention, and Wellness Grants
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Justice
Law enforcement recruitment, retention, and wellness grant programs
Under current law, DOJ awards grants for many purposes, including for community-oriented policing-house programs and to increase beat patrol officers. This bill adds that DOJ must award grants to law enforcement agencies and tribal law enforcement agencies in this state to fund programs that recruit and retain law enforcement officers and that promote officer wellness.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.455 (2) (be) of the statutes is created to read:
20.455 (2) (be) Law enforcement recruitment, retention, and wellness grant program. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule to provide grants under s. 165.991 to law enforcement agencies to fund programs designed to recruit and retain law enforcement officers and promote officer wellness.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 165.991 of the statutes is created to read:
165.991 Grants for law enforcement recruitment, retention, and wellness programs. The department of justice shall award grants from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (be) to law enforcement agencies and tribal law enforcement agencies in this state to fund programs that recruit and retain law enforcement officers and that promote officer wellness.
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