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HB2015 • 2026
Improving public safety funding by providing resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice agencies, and authorizing a local option tax.
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Public safety funding
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Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS ENGR S2749.E ESHB 2015 - S COMM AMD By Committee on Ways & Means ADOPTED AND ENGROSSED 04/16/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "PART I3 Local Law Enforcement Grant Program4 NEW SECTION.
0 • Law & Justice
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS LAW S2594.2 ESHB 2015 - S COMM AMD By Committee on Law & Justice OUT OF ORDER 04/16/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "PART I3 Local Law Enforcement Grant Program4 NEW SECTION.
0 • Ways & Means
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS WM S2749.2 ESHB 2015 - S COMM AMD By Committee on Ways & Means ADOPTED AS AMENDED 04/16/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "PART I3 Local Law Enforcement Grant Program4 NEW SECTION.
306 • Jacobsen
Plain English: 2015-S AMH JACO H1887.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD 306 By Representative Jacobsen WITHDRAWN 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 37, after "tax." insert "The tax authorized in 1 this section is a credit against the state tax under chapters 82.08 2 and 82.12 RCW." 3 EFFECT: Provides that the city local sales and use tax is credited against the state portion of sales and use tax.
312 • Orcutt
Plain English: 2015-S AMH ORCU H1889.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD 312 By Representative Orcutt WITHDRAWN 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 29, after "may" insert "submit an authorizing 1 proposition to the city or county voters, and if the proposition is 2 approved by a majority of persons voting, may" 3 EFFECT: Requires that the voters approve the local sales and use tax.
313 • Orcutt
Plain English: 2015-S AMH ORCU H1888.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD 313 By Representative Orcutt WITHDRAWN 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 39, after "purposes." insert "These funds may not 1 be used to replace or supplant existing funding." 2 EFFECT: Restricts use of tax revenues from the new local sales and use tax to new expenditures and programs.
314 • Penner
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2015-S AMH PENN TAYT 406 1 - Official Print EFFECT: Adds imposition of the local criminal justice sales and use tax and the local public safety sales and use tax to the local sales and use taxes that may be imposed by a city and county to be eligible for the grant program administered by the Criminal Justice Training Commission and the distributions from the Supplemental Criminal Justice Account.
336 • Penner
Plain English: 2015-S AMH PENN H1908.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD 336 By Representative Penner WITHDRAWN 03/11/2025 On page 2, line 2, after "tax" strike "in" and insert "pursuant 1 to RCW 82.14.340, 82.14.450, or" 2 On page 3, line 11, after "created" strike "in" and insert 3 "pursuant to RCW 82.14.340, 82.14.450, or" 4 EFFECT: Adds imposition of the local criminal justice sales and use tax and the local public safety sales and use tax to the local sales and use taxes that may be imposed by a city and county to be eligible for the grant program administered by the Criminal Justice Training Commission and the distributions from the Supplemental Criminal Justice Account.
338 • Abell
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2015-S AMH ABEL TAYT 411 1 - Official Print 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.
345 • Entenman
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2015-S AMH ENTE TAYT 407 1 - Official Print 2015-S AMH ENTE TAYT 407 SHB 2015 - H AMD 345 By Representative Entenman WITHDRAWN 03/11/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following: "NEW SECTION.
429 • Entenman
Plain English: 2015-S AMH ENTE H1900.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD 429 By Representative Entenman ADOPTED AS AMENDED 03/11/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "NEW SECTION.
471 • Jacobsen
Plain English: 2015-S AMH JACO H1904.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 471 By Representative Jacobsen NOT ADOPTED 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 36, after "tax." insert "The tax authorized in 1 this section is a credit against the state tax under chapters 82.08 2 and 82.12 RCW." 3 EFFECT: Provides that the city local sales and use tax is credited against the state portion of sales and use tax.
516 • Orcutt
Plain English: 2015-S AMH ORCU H1905.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 516 By Representative Orcutt NOT ADOPTED 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 38, after "purposes." insert "These funds may not 1 be used to replace or supplant existing funding." 2 EFFECT: Restricts use of tax revenues from the new local sales and use tax to new expenditures and programs.
517 • Orcutt
Plain English: 2015-S AMH ORCU H1907.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 517 By Representative Orcutt NOT ADOPTED 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 28, after "may" insert "submit an authorizing 1 proposition to the city or county voters, and if the proposition is 2 approved by a majority of persons voting, may" 3 EFFECT: Requires that the voters approve the local sales and use tax.
520 • Hill
Plain English: 2015-S AMH HILL H1913.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 520 By Representative Hill ADOPTED 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 7, after "tax" insert "pursuant to RCW 82.14.340 1 or 82.14.450, or" 2 On page 3, line 27, after "of" strike "any" and insert "a 3 qualified" 4 On page 3, line 29, after "chapter." insert "A qualified city or 5 county is a city or county where the voters have not repealed by 6 referendum a tax imposed pursuant to RCW 82.14.340 or rejected a 7 ballot proposition to impose a tax pursuant to RCW 82.14.450 in the 8 previous two calendar years." 9 On page 3, line 36, after "tax." insert "The tax may only be 10 imposed and collected if the city or county receives a grant pursuant 11 to section 2 of this act." 12 EFFECT: (1) Adds imposition of the local criminal justice sales and use tax and the local public safety sales and use tax to the local sales and use taxes that may be imposed by a city and county to be eligible for the grant program administered by the Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC).
547 • Couture
Plain English: 2015-S AMH COUT H1917.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 547 By Representative Couture NOT ADOPTED 03/11/2025 On page 4, beginning on line 17, strike all of section 4 and 1 insert the following: 2 "NEW SECTION.
558 • Abell
Plain English: 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 1 through "purposes." on line 38 and insert " (a) Subject to (b) of this 2 subsection, all money received under this section must be used solely 3 for employing additional commissioned law enforcement officers.4 (b) If the commissioned rate per 1,000 population for the state 5 is not last in the nation, a city or county may use money received 6 under this section in the current calendar year for criminal justice 7 purposes.
615 • Reed
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2015-S AMH REED TAYT 421 1 - Official Print EFFECT: Removes the requirement that a city or county must impose the new local sales and use tax in order to qualify for the distributions from the supplemental criminal justice account.
616 • Reed
Plain English: 2015-S AMH REED H1911.1 SHB 2015 - H AMD TO H AMD (H-1900.1/25) 616 By Representative Reed WITHDRAWN 03/11/2025 On page 3, line 8, after "grant." insert "However, a law 1 enforcement agency that receives its primary funding from a city with 2 a population of at least 200,000 persons does not have to impose the 3 tax authorized in section 3 of this act." 4 EFFECT: Provides that law enforcement agencies that receive their primary funding from a city with a population of at least 200,000 does not have to impose the new sales and use tax to be eligible for the Criminal Justice Training Commission grants authorized in section 2 of this act.
637 • Orcutt
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2015-S AMH ORCU TAYT 422 1 - Official Print EFFECT: Provides that law enforcement agencies that receive their primary funding from a city with a population of less than 200,000 persons does not have to impose the new sales and use tax to be eligible for the Criminal Justice Training Commission grants authorized in section 2 of this act.
706 • Orcutt
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2015-S AMH ORCU TAYT 423 1 - Official Print EFFECT: Provides that law enforcement agencies that receive their primary funding from a county with a population of less than 200,000 persons do not have to impose the new local sales and use tax to be eligible for the Criminal Justice Training Commission grants authorized in section 2 of this act.
313 • Dhingra
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS DHIN S2906.1 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 313 By Senator Dhingra ADOPTED 04/16/2025 On page 2, line 5, after "implemented" strike "procedures and 1 policies" and insert "policies and practices" 2 On page 2, line 8, after "policies" insert "regarding use of 3 force" 4 On page 2, line 9, after "intervene and" strike "canine" and 5 insert "training and use of canine teams" 6 On page 2, line 15, after " 7.105" strike ", 9.41, and 10.99" and 7 insert "and 9.41" 8 On page 2, line 17, after "orders" strike "and domestic violence 9 911 response" 10 On page 2, beginning on line 23, after "RCW 43.101.272" strike 11 all material through " 43.101.428" on line 24 and insert "and 12 43.101.276" 13 On page 3, beginning on line 6, after "volunteers" strike all 14 material through "officers" on line 7 15 On page 3, beginning on line 9, after "officers" strike all 16 material through "them" on line 12 and insert "and any identifying 17 insignia must be officially issued by the agency and used only when 18 on duty" 19 On page 4, beginning on line 1, after "section." strike all 20 material through "section" on line 3 and insert "Funds advanced under 21 this subsection must be used by the agency to cover the costs of 22 sending officers to the trainings required under subsection (3) of 23 this section, including any overtime costs" 24 EFFECT: (1) Removes requirement that grant applicant agencies maintain policies related to authority and requirements for specially commissioned officers.
361 • Dhingra
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS DHIN S3060.1 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 361 By Senator Dhingra ADOPTED 04/16/2025 On page 6, line 37, after "act." insert "A city or county that 1 wishes to impose the tax authorized under this section may submit 2 documentation to the commission before the commission finalizes the 3 form and manner of such submittals and may not be penalized for doing 4 so.
426 • Trudeau
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS TRUD S2963.2 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 426 By Senator Trudeau WITHDRAWN 04/16/2025 On page 7, line 24, after " (3)" strike "Moneys" and insert " (a) 1 Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, moneys"2 On page 7, after line 25, insert the following:3 "(b) A city or county receiving funding from a grant program 4 under RCW 10.101.050 must use moneys from the tax under this section 5 for public defense services in the amount that is no less than the 6 lesser of: 7 (i) The amount received by the city or county under the grant 8 program in RCW 10.101.050; or 9 (ii) 10 percent of the moneys collected from the tax authorized 10 in this section.
429 • Saldaña
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS SALD S3198.1 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 429 By Senator Saldaña ADOPTED 04/16/2025 On page 4, after line 33, insert the following:1 "(9) This section expires June 30, 2028." 2 On page 4, line 35, after "REPORTING." insert "(1)"3 On page 4, at the beginning of line 38, strike " (1)" and insert 4 "(a)" 5 On page 5, at the beginning of line 1, strike " (2)" and insert 6 "(b)" 7 On page 5, at the beginning of line 3, strike " (3)" and insert 8 "(c)" 9 On page 5, at the beginning of line 4, strike " (4)" and insert 10 "(d)" 11 On page 5, at the beginning of line 7, strike " (5)" and insert 12 "(e)" 13 On page 5, after line 10, insert the following:14 "(2) This section expires December 31, 2029." 15 On page 6, at the beginning of line 2, insert "(1)"16 On page 6, after line 16, insert the following:17 "(2) This section expires June 30, 2028." 18 On page 8, beginning on line 25, after "providing" strike "an 19 expiration date" and insert "expiration dates" 20 EFFECT: (1) Sunsets the local law enforcement grant program and supplemental criminal justice account on June 30, 2028.
430 • Liias
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS LIIA S3193.1 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 430 By Senator Liias ADOPTED 04/16/2025 On page 8, line 21, after "previous" strike "two calendar years" 1 and insert "12 months" 2 EFFECT: Amends the definition of "qualified city or county" to mean either a city or county where the voters have not repealed by referendum a tax imposed pursuant to RCW 82.14.340 or rejected a ballot proposition to impose a tax pursuant to RCW 82.14.450 in the previous 12 months rather than 2 calendar years.
432 • Holy
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS HOLY S3204.1 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 432 By Senator Holy ADOPTED 04/16/2025 On page 6, line 21, after "By" strike "December 31, 2027" and 1 insert "June 30, 2028" 2 On page 6, line 27, after "(b)" insert the following:3 "If a city or county legislative authority has not adopted a 4 resolution or ordinance to impose the tax under (a) of this 5 subsection by June 30, 2028, the city or county may submit an 6 authorizing proposition to the city or county voters at a primary or 7 general election, and if the proposition is approved by the majority 8 of persons voting, impose the sales and use tax under this section.9 (c)" 10 Reletter the remaining subsections consecutively and correct any 11 internal references accordingly.
434 • Dhingra
Plain English: 2015-S.E AMS DHIN S3192.1 ESHB 2015 - S AMD TO WM COMM AMD (S-2749.2/25) 434 By Senator Dhingra ADOPTED 04/16/2025 On page 2, beginning on line 32, after "who" strike all material 1 through "43.101.095," on line 33 2 On page 7, beginning on line 11, after " (iii)" strike all 3 material through "this act" on line 15 and insert "If the city or 4 county has not rectified all deficiencies within 180 calendar days of 5 its initial submittal under this section, as verified by the criminal 6 justice training commission, the office of the state treasurer must 7 withhold $100,000 of the tax collected under this section each month 8 until the month in which the city or county comes into compliance 9 with the requirements of section 101 of this act as verified by the 10 criminal justice training commission" 11 EFFECT: (1) Amends the grant requirements to require applicant agencies have a chief of police, marshal, or sheriff who is certified by the criminal justice training commission and who has not been convicted of certain crimes.
1st substitute bill substituted.
Public safety funding
AN ACT Relating to improving public safety funding by providing 1 resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice 2 agencies, and authorizing a local option tax; adding new sections to 3 chapter 82.14 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 43.101 RCW.4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:5 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 82.14 6 RCW to read as follows: 7 (1) The supplemental criminal justice account is created in the 8 state treasury. 9 (2) At the beginning of each quarter, the state treasurer must 10 distribute the funds appropriated to the account to qualified cities 11 and counties based on the following per capita formula:12 (a) The amount appropriated into the account in the biennial 13 budget for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium divided by eight;14 (b) The amount in (a) of this subsection divided by the total 15 population of all qualified cities and counties for the quarter 16 combined; and 17 (c) The per person amount calculated in (b) of this subsection by 18 the population of each qualified city or county. 19 (3) For the purposes of this section, "qualified city or county" 20 means a city or county that imposes the tax in section 3 of this act 21 H-1607.1 HOUSE BILL 2015 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By Representatives Entenman, Reeves, Berg, Morgan, Santos, Pollet, Donaghy, Doglio, Salahuddin, Chase, Obras, Parshley, Walen, Stearns, and Thai Read first time 02/21/25. Referred to Committee on Finance. p. 1 HB 2015 and is approved for a grant in section 2 of this act. The criminal 1 justice training commission must transmit a list of cities and 2 counties approved for grants to the state treasurer at least four 3 weeks before the end of a quarter. 4 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 43.101 5 RCW to read as follows: 6 (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this 7 specific purpose, the commission shall develop and implement a local 8 law enforcement grant program for the purpose of providing direct 9 support to local and tribal law enforcement agencies in hiring, 10 retaining, and training law enforcement officers to increase 11 community policing and public safety. Under this section, the 12 commission shall: 13 (a) Establish procedures and policies for submitting the grant 14 applications and publish them on the commission's website;15 (b) Publish the criteria for evaluating and selecting grant 16 recipients described in subsection (2) of this section on the 17 commission's website; 18 (c) Create a grant application form that local and tribal law 19 enforcement agencies must use to apply for grant funding; and20 (d) Require reports from grant recipients that must include, but 21 is not limited to, how the funding impacts retention rates and 22 improved vacancy rates, and the percent of officer compliance with 23 the commission's 40-hour crisis intervention team training and 24 trauma-informed training approved by the commission.25 (2) The grants under the local law enforcement grant program must 26 be awarded to local and tribal law enforcement agencies based on 27 their submittals to the commission. To qualify for a grant pursuant 28 to this section, a law enforcement agency must have:29 (a) Written and published policies consistent with RCW 43.17.425 30 and 10.93.160, and the office of the attorney general's keep 31 Washington working act guide, model policies, and training 32 recommendations for state and local law enforcement agencies;33 (b) Written and published policies in compliance with all 34 commission and attorney general model policies for law enforcement 35 including, but not limited to, use of force, duty to intervene, and 36 canine; 37 p. 2 HB 2015 (c) Written and published policies and practices related to laws 1 addressing firearm relinquishment pursuant to court orders and 2 domestic violence 911 response requirements; 3 (d) 80 percent officer compliance rate with the commission's 40-4 hour crisis intervention team training; 5 (e) 100 percent officer compliance rate with trauma-informed 6 training approved by the commission; 7 (f) Disclosed the number of vacancies at the applying agency as 8 of the time of application; and 9 (g) Imposed the tax authorized in section 3 of this act within 10 the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium. 11 (3) Grant funding awarded to local and tribal law enforcement 12 agencies may only be used for the purposes of: 13 (a) Recruiting new law enforcement officers from the community in 14 which the officer will be working; 15 (b) Providing retention bonuses to newly recruited local law 16 enforcement officers; 17 (c) Funding use of force, de-escalation, crisis intervention, and 18 trauma-informed trainings for newly hired officers to remain in 19 compliance with the commission's required trainings; and20 (d) Funding broader law enforcement and public safety efforts 21 including, but not limited to, emergency management planning, 22 environmental hazard mitigations, security personnel, community 23 outreach and assistance programs, and mental health crisis response.24 NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 82.14 25 RCW to read as follows: 26 (1) By June 30, 2027, the legislative authority of any city or 27 county may fix and impose a sales and use tax in accordance with the 28 terms of this chapter. The tax authorized in this section is in 29 addition to any other taxes authorized by law and must be collected 30 from those persons who are taxable by the state pursuant to chapters 31 82.08 and 82.12 RCW upon the occurrence of any taxable event within 32 such county. 33 (2) The rate of tax equals 0.1 percent of the selling price, in 34 the case of a sales tax, or value of the article used, in the case of 35 a use tax. 36 (3) Moneys received from the tax imposed under this section must 37 be expended for criminal justice purposes. 38 p. 3 HB 2015 (4) For purposes of this section, "criminal justice purposes" 1 means activities that substantially assist the criminal justice 2 system, which may include circumstances where ancillary benefit to 3 the civil justice system occurs, and which includes domestic violence 4 services such as those provided by domestic violence programs, 5 community advocates, and legal advocates, as those terms are defined 6 in RCW 70.123.020. 7 --- END --- p. 4 HB 2015