Panel adopts dash-6 to House Bill 3,069, centralizing grant process and setting deflection formula; bill sent to Ways and Means

The Joint Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response on May 21 adopted the dash-6 amendment to House Bill 3,069 and referred the amended bill to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means with a due-pass recommendation.

Representative Croft, who moved adoption of the dash-6 amendment, described the amendment as a “comprehensive response” that consolidates grant processes administered by the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC). The amendment combines grant streams for treatment courts, Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) impacts, and deflection programs into a common grant process while removing the organization that handles restorative justice from that consolidated public-safety grant so it may pursue a separate grant process.

Representative Croft and other sponsors said the…