2015-S AMH ABEL H1903.1
SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 558
By Representative Abell
NOT ADOPTED 03/11/2025
On page 3, beginning on line 37, after "(3)" strike all material through "purposes." on line 38 and insert "(a) Subject to (b) of this subsection, all money received under this section must be used solely for employing additional commissioned law enforcement officers.
(b) If the commissioned rate per 1,000 population for the state is not last in the nation, a city or county may use money received under this section in the current calendar year for criminal justice purposes. To determine the state commissioned rate per 1,000 population:
(i) Law enforcement employment data and jurisdictional population data provided to the federal uniform crime program operated by the criminal justice information services division of the federal bureau of investigation, as of October of the prior calendar year, must be used; and
(ii) The total full-time commissioned law enforcement officers of the state must be divided by the population and multiplied by 1,000."
EFFECT: Restricts the use of the local sales and use tax revenues to the employment of additional commissioned law enforcement officers unless the state is not last in the nation for local commissioned rate per 1,000 population.
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