Bill > SB5841

This bill aims to incentivize cities and counties in Washington to increase the employment of commissioned law enforcement officers. It does this by allowing local governments to impose a 0.10% sales and use tax, with the revenue from this tax to be used solely for employing additional commissioned law enforcement officers. However, if the local commissioned rate per 1,000 population is already greater than the national average, the city or county can use the revenue for broader criminal justice purposes. The bill also requires the state's Criminal Justice Training Commission to provide up to 25 basic law enforcement training classes per fiscal year, with the legislature appropriating sufficient funding for this purpose.