PROPOSED
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2471
(Reference to printed bill)
Page 1, after line 26, insert:
"Sec. 2. Laws 2018, chapter 312, section 5, as amended by Laws 2019, chapter 283, section 1, is amended to read:
Sec. 5. Appropriations; peace officer training equipment; public safety and court automation expenses
A. Notwithstanding section 41‑1731, subsection C, paragraph 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, monies in the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, are continuously appropriated until all of the following appropriations are made:
1. The first $500,000 $3,500,000 that is deposited in the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, is appropriated to the department of public safety for employee overtime pay.
2. The next $2,300,000 $1,800,000 is appropriated after the appropriation made in paragraph 1 of this section from the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the department of public safety to purchase all of the following:
(a) Ten virtual firing ranges that:
(i) Are ballistically accurate to a degree of .08 milliradian, as verified by the United States army.
(ii) Take into account the exact weapon and round being fired.
(iii) Emulate the real world as closely as possible, including ballistic fly‑out projectiles, weapon behavior, projectile size, environmental effects and impact results.
(iv) Will work with the virtual firing range simulators that are used by this state before January 1, 2019.
(v) Are capable of generating unlimited custom high definition video scenarios, skill drills, targeting exercises and firearms training in any setting.
(b) Three virtual training simulators, including one for the Tucson police department, one in Pinal county for the sheriff's office and one for the Glendale regional training academy. The virtual training simulators must:
(i) 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.
(ii) Have the ability to accurately replicate real-world ballistic characteristics of a projectile in flight.
(iii) Be equipped with transducers to recreate sound vibrations.
(iv) Include a stress component, including the use of a wireless device capable of delivering an adjustable electric impulse, during training engagements.
(c) Software that is used with the virtual firing ranges and virtual training simulators bullet‑resistant helmets and vests for sworn personnel.
3. The next $203,000 is appropriated after the appropriations made in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this section from the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the department of public safety to maintain and service the seven existing virtual training simulators in this state.
4. The next $50,000 is appropriated after the appropriations made in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this section from the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the governor's office of highway safety to provide public service announcements that educate drivers in this state on how to act when subject to a peace officer's traffic stop.
5. The next $20,000 is appropriated after the appropriations made in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this section from the peace officer training equipment fund established by section 41‑1731, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the supreme court to cover a onetime programming cost.
B. Notwithstanding section 35‑342, Arizona Revised Statutes, the department of public safety may allow delivery of the virtual firing ranges, the virtual training simulators and the software for which monies are appropriated pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section before sufficient monies are available from the peace officer training equipment fund and may pay for the equipment when monies are available from the fund without paying interest on the outstanding balance if the equipment vendor agrees to this arrangement."
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