REFERENCE TITLE: appropriation; peace officer training equipment

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019

HB 2328

Introduced by Representatives Payne: Espinoza, Toma, Weninger, Senator Gowan

 

AN ACT

 

appropriating monies to the department of public safety.

 

 

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

Section 1.  Appropriations; peace officer training equipment; exemption

A.  The sum of $2,100,000 is appropriated from the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2019-2020 to the department of public safety to purchase virtual firing ranges, virtual training simulators and software for the ranges and simulators for each of the following entities:

1.  The city of Chandler.

2.  The Glendale regional training academy.

3.  The Gilbert training academy.

4.  The La Paz county sheriff's office.

5.  The Buckeye police department.

B.  The sum of $80,000 is appropriated from the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2019-2020 to the department of public safety to purchase one virtual firing range and software for the city of Peoria.

C.  The virtual firing ranges must do all of the following:

1.  Be ballistically accurate to a degree of .08 milliradian, as verified by the United States army.

2.  Take into account the exact weapon and round being fired.

3.  Emulate the real world as closely as possible, including ballistic fly‑out projectiles, weapon behavior, projectile size, environmental effects and impact results.

4.  Work with the virtual firing range simulators that are used by this state before the effective date of this section.

5.  Be capable of generating unlimited custom high definition video scenarios, skill drills, targeting exercises and firearms training in any setting.

D.  The virtual training simulators must do all of the following:

1.  Have the ability to display, and for the trainee to engage with, characters and scenario content simultaneously across at least a three hundred degree screen environment.

2.  Have the ability to accurately replicate real-world ballistic characteristics of a projectile in flight.

3.  Be equipped with transducers to recreate sound vibrations.

4.  Include a stress component, including the use of a wireless device capable of delivering an adjustable electric impulse, during training engagements.

E.  The director of the department of public safety may enter into a contract that allows for each entity named in subsections A and B of this section to receive the training equipment required by this section before the department of public safety receives the monies appropriated by this section if the contract that is entered into allows for cancelation of the contract after the delivery of the training equipment and before any monies are disbursed to the department of public safety for the training equipment if there is no cost to the department of public safety or any of the receiving entities for the use of the equipment if the contract is canceled.

F.  The appropriations made in subsections A and B of this section are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.