appropriation; major incident task forces

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appropriation; major incident task forces

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What This Bill Does

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• 2418 appropriation; major incident task forces Purpose Appropriates $600,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC) to distribute, and requires the FY 2026 appropriation of $600,000 to ACJC for the major incident regional law enforcement task force to be distributed, evenly to the sheriffs' offices of the original five Major Incident Division task forces, as specified.
• Background Subject to legislative appropriation, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) must maintain the Major Incident Division to: 1) use investigators who are certified by the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board or were sworn employees of a federal, state, county or local law enforcement agency (LEA), who have demonstrated the skills, knowledge, abilities and training as approved by the Director of DPS and who have successfully completed Director-identified and Board-approved investigative courses to conduct independent investigations of critical force incidents; and 2) at the request of a chief of police or county sheriff, investigate a criminal allegation against a peace officer who is employed by the LEA.
• Each LEA must require the Major Incident Division, a regional law enforcement task force or another LEA to perform the criminal investigation of any critical force incidents in Arizona.

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Official Summary Text

HB2418 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR
h.b. 2418

appropriation;
major incident task forces

Purpose

Appropriates
$600,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona
Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC) to distribute, and requires the FY 2026
appropriation of $600,000 to ACJC for the major incident regional law
enforcement task force to be distributed, evenly to the sheriffs' offices of
the original five Major Incident Division task forces, as specified.

Background

Subject to
legislative appropriation, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) must maintain
the Major Incident Division to: 1) use investigators who are certified by the
Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board or were sworn employees of a
federal, state, county or local law enforcement agency (LEA), who have
demonstrated the skills, knowledge, abilities and training as approved by the
Director of DPS and who have successfully completed Director-identified and
Board-approved investigative courses to conduct independent investigations of critical
force incidents; and 2) at the request of a chief of police or county sheriff,
investigate a criminal allegation against a peace officer who is employed by
the LEA. Each LEA must require the Major Incident Division, a regional law
enforcement task force or another LEA to perform the criminal investigation of
any critical force incidents in Arizona.

A
critical
force incident
is: 1) any discharge of a firearm by a peace officer, due to
a use of force encounter, regardless of whether it results in the injury or
death of an individual; or 2) an incident involving a peace officer's intended
use of deadly force or use of force by any other means that results in death or
serious bodily injury of another person during an on-duty or off-duty incident
while acting under the color of authority (
A.R.S.
� 41-1762
).

Laws 2025, Chapter
233
appropriated $600,000 in FY 2026 to the major incident regional law enforcement
Task Force. H.B. 2418 appropriates $600,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to
ACJC.

Provisions

1.

Appropriates $600,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to ACJC to distribute
evenly to the sheriffs' offices of the original five Major Incident Division task
forces located in Cochise, Coconino, Navajo, Pinal and Yuma County.

2.

Requires the FY 2026 $600,000 appropriation to ACJC for the major
incident regional law enforcement task force to be distributed evenly to the
sheriffs' offices of the original five Major Incident Division task forces
located in Cochise, Coconino, Navajo, Pinal and Yuma County.

3.

Becomes effective on the general effective date.

House Action

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Current Bill Text

HB2418 - 572R - H Ver

House Engrossed

appropriation; major
incident task forces

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 2418

AN
ACT

Appropriating monies to the Arizona
criminal justice COMMISSION.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section
1.
1.
Appropriation; Arizona criminal justice commission; major
incident division task forces

A. The sum of $600,000 is
appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the
Arizona criminal justice commission to distribute evenly to the
sheriffs' offices of the original five major incident
division task forces
located in Cochise county,
Coconino county, Navajo county, Pinal county and Yuma county.

B. The $600,000
appropriated to the Arizona criminal justice commission by Laws 2025, chapter
233, section 24 for the major incident regional law enforcement task force
shall be distributed evenly to the sheriffs' offices of the original five major
incident division task forces located in Cochise county, Coconino county,
Navajo county, Pinal county and Yuma county.