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CJTC outlines rules, timeline for new public-safety sales tax and $100M grant program
Summary
At its December meeting, CJTC staff reviewed the implementation steps for the recently enacted public-safety funding package: a permanent local sales-and-use tax and a three-year, $100 million grant program. CJTC will verify jurisdictions' compliance with training, use-of-force and firearms policies before collections begin.
The Criminal Justice Training Commission explained how it will implement a new public-safety funding package that gives jurisdictions two paths to pay for law-enforcement needs: a permanent local sales-and-use tax and a three-year, $100 million grant program.
A CJTC presenter said the program includes a statutory certification process that agencies must meet before they may collect the tax or draw grant funds. "Part of the statutory process allows us to give jurisdictions conditional approval so that they can, in fact, start collecting the tax," the presenter said. The presenter told the commission that conditional approval…
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