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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
SENATE AMENDMENT 1,
TO SENATE BILL 771
February 10, 2020 - Offered by Senator Jacque.
SB771-SA1,1,11 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
SB771-SA1,1,3 21. Page 1, line 3: delete “crime and" and substitute “crime, grants for beat
3patrol and specialized officers, and".
SB771-SA1,1,4 42. Page 4, line 2: after that line insert:
SB771-SA1,1,5 5 Section 2m. 20.455 (2) (kb) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB771-SA1,1,116 20.455 (2) (kb) Law enforcement officer supplement grants. The amounts in the
7schedule to provide grants for uniformed law enforcement officers under s. 165.986.
8All moneys transferred from the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (1) (id) 3.
9shall be credited to this appropriation account. Notwithstanding s. 20.001 (3) (a), the
10unencumbered balance on June 30 of each year shall be transferred to the
11appropriation account under s. 20.505 (1) (id).”.
SB771-SA1,1,12 123. Page 4, line 9: after that line insert:
SB771-SA1,1,13 13 Section 4h. 165.986 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB771-SA1,2,1
1165.986 (title) Beat patrol and specialized officers; grant program.
SB771-SA1,4i 2Section 4i. 165.986 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 165.986 (1m) and
3amended to read:
SB771-SA1,2,144 165.986 (1m) The department of justice shall provide grants from the
5appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (kb) to cities political subdivisions to employ
6additional uniformed law enforcement officers whose primary duty is beat
7patrolling. A city is eligible for a grant under this section in fiscal year 1994-95 if
8the city has a population of 25,000 or more
or specialized law enforcement officers.
9A city political subdivision may receive a grant for a calendar year if the city it applies
10for a grant before September 1 of the preceding calendar year. Grants shall be
11awarded to the 10 eligible cities submitting an application for a grant that have the
12highest rates of violent crime index offenses in the most recent full calendar year for
13which data is available under the uniform crime reporting system of the federal
14bureau of investigation.
SB771-SA1,4j 15Section 4j. 165.986 (1c) of the statutes is created to read:
SB771-SA1,2,1616 165.986 (1c) In this section:
SB771-SA1,2,1717 (a) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county.
SB771-SA1,2,2018 (b) “Specialized law enforcement officer” means a law enforcement officer
19whose primary duties and assignments relate to achieving a law enforcement or
20public safety goal that is identified by a political subdivision under sub. (2) (a).
SB771-SA1,4k 21Section 4k. 165.986 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 165.986 (2) (intro.) and
22amended to read:
SB771-SA1,2,2523 165.986 (2) (intro.) A city political subdivision applying to the department of
24justice for a grant under this section shall include a submit to the department of
25justice all of the following:
SB771-SA1,3,2
1(b) A proposed plan of expenditure of the grant moneys that sets forth a
2strategy for applying the grant moneys toward the goals identified in par. (a)
.
SB771-SA1,3,9 3(2m) The grant moneys that a city political subdivision receives under this
4section may be used for salary and fringe benefits only. Except as provided in sub.
5(3), the positions for which funding is sought must be created on or after April 21,
61994, and result in a net increase in the number of uniformed law enforcement
7officers assigned to beat patrol duties
. The department may issue a grant in 2 annual
8payments, with the 2nd payment contingent upon the grant recipient's progress in
9meeting its goals reported in sub. (4m)
.
SB771-SA1,4L 10Section 4L. 165.986 (2) (a) and (c) of the statutes are created to read:
SB771-SA1,3,1511 165.986 (2) (a) Defined goals toward which the grant funds will be applied,
12using data that identify specific problems and that may be used as a measurement
13of progress toward the identified goals. If grant funds will be used for salary and
14fringe benefits of a specialized law enforcement officer, a description of the officer's
15duties and their relation to the goals identified in this paragraph.
SB771-SA1,3,1816 (c) If the applicant has received a previous grant under this section, a statement
17of its progress in reducing crime or achieving other goals related to the purposes for
18which it received the grant.
SB771-SA1,4m 19Section 4m. 165.986 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB771-SA1,4,220 165.986 (3) During the first 6 months of the first year of a grant, a city political
21subdivision
may, with the approval of the department, use part of the grant for the
22payment of salary and fringe benefits for overtime provided by uniformed law
23enforcement officers whose primary duty is beat patrolling or by specialized law
24enforcement officers
. A city political subdivision may submit a request to the
25department for a 3-month extension of the use of the grant for the payment of

1overtime costs. To be eligible to use part of the first year's grant for overtime costs,
2the city political subdivision shall provide the department with all of the following:
SB771-SA1,4,43 (a) The reasons why uniformed law enforcement officers assigned to beat patrol
4duties or specialized law enforcement officers need to work overtime.
SB771-SA1,4,65 (b) The status of the hiring and training of new uniformed law enforcement
6officers who will have beat patrol duties or of specialized law enforcement officers.
SB771-SA1,4,117 (c) Documentation that a sufficient amount of the grant for the first year will
8be available, during the period remaining after the payment of overtime costs, to pay
9the salary and fringe benefits of the same number of uniformed officers whose
10primary duty is beat patrolling or of specialized law enforcement officers that the
11grant originally planned to pay.
SB771-SA1,4n 12Section 4n. 165.986 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 165.986 (4) (a) and
13amended to read:
SB771-SA1,4,2314 165.986 (4) (a) The department shall develop criteria which, notwithstanding
15s. 227.10 (1), need not be promulgated as rules under ch. 227, for use in determining
16the amount to grant award to cities political subdivisions under this section. The
17department may not award an annual grant in excess of $150,000 to any city
The
18criteria shall include, for each applicant, the rates of violent crime index offenses in
19the most recent full calendar year for which data are available under the uniform
20crime reporting system of the federal bureau of investigation and, if applicable, the
21applicant's success in using previous grants to reduce crime or achieve other goals
22set by the department. The criteria may also include the rates of nonviolent crime
23in the political subdivision
.
SB771-SA1,5,3
1(b) The department shall review any application and plan submitted under
2sub. (2) to
determine if that each application and, plan, and statement of progress
3submitted under sub. (2) (c) or (4m)
meet the requirements of this section.
SB771-SA1,5,8 4(c) The grant that a city political subdivision receives under this section must
5result in a net increase in the number of uniformed law enforcement officers assigned
6to beat patrol duties or the number of specialized law enforcement officers and
may
7not supplant existing local resources. The political subdivision may not reduce its
8expenditures as a result of receiving the grant.
SB771-SA1,4o 9Section 4o. 165.986 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:
SB771-SA1,5,1210 165.986 (4m) A political subdivision that receives a grant under this section
11shall submit, annually, or as requested by the department, a progress report that
12includes all of the following:
SB771-SA1,5,1513 (a) For each law enforcement officer whose position is funded wholly or in part
14by the grant, an activity report that includes proactive measures the officer has
15taken to achieve the goals identified in the grant application.
SB771-SA1,5,1716 (b) Crime reporting information that compares rates of crime in the political
17subdivision at the time it received a grant and at the end of the reporting period.
SB771-SA1,5,2018 (c) Other information requested by the department that demonstrates the
19efficacy of the grant in reducing crime or achieving other goals identified by the
20political subdivision or by the department.
SB771-SA1,4p 21Section 4p. 165.986 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB771-SA1,5,2522 165.986 (5) A city may receive a grant for 3 consecutive years without
23submitting a new application each year.
For each year that a city political
24subdivision
receives a grant, the city political subdivision shall provide matching
25funds of at least 25 percent of the amount of the grant.
SB771-SA1,4q
1Section 4q. 165.986 (6) of the statutes is repealed.”.
SB771-SA1,6,5 24. Page 5, line 14: after “(2)." insert “and to supplement the appropriation
3under s. 20.455 (2) (kb) for grants for law enforcement officers under s. 165.986. The
4committee may supplement the appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (kb) under this
5subsection without finding that an emergency exists under s. 13.101 (3) (a) 1.".
SB771-SA1,6,9 65. Page 5, line 18: after “(3)." insert “and to supplement the appropriation
7under s. 20.455 (2) (kb) for grants for law enforcement officers under s. 165.986. The
8committee may supplement the appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (kb) under this
9subsection without finding that an emergency exists under s. 13.101 (3) (a) 1.".
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