Bill > S1837

This bill, the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act of 2021, aims to provide grants to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and corrections agencies to obtain behavioral health crisis response training for their officers. The key provisions include: authorizing the Attorney General to reserve up to $10 million annually to carry out the grant program, establishing program standards for the training organizations, requiring grant applicants to provide certain information about their agencies and training needs, and restricting the use of grant funds to supplement (not supplant) existing state, local, and tribal funding for these purposes. The goal is to better train law enforcement and corrections officers to safely resolve mental health crisis situations, reduce officer and public injuries or fatalities during such responses, and improve overall community-police relations.