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Resolution: 148-22
File Number: 2022-0530
ARKANSAS FULL-TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SALARY STIPEND ACT OF
2022 GRANT (ACT 224):
A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF A GRANT FROM THE ARKANSAS
FULL-TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SALARY STIPEND ACT OF 2022 IN THE
AMOUNT OF $771,020.00, AND TO APPROVE A BUDGET ADJUSTMENT
WHEREAS, Act 224 of 2022 provides a single payment of $5,000.00 plus federal benefit
withholdings to all current and future certified law enforcement officers through June 30, 2023.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS:
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby authorizes the
acceptance of a grant from the Arkansas Full -Time Law Enforcement Officer Salary Stipend Act of
2022, in the amount of $771,020.00.
Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby approves a budget
adjustment, a copy of which is attached to this Resolution.
PASSED and APPROVED on 7/5/2022
Attest: '����►i I i+l 11,r"
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Kara Paxton, City Clerk Treasurer ops •gOA. iyr 1 `, •��
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City of Fayetteville, Arkansas 113 West Mountain Street
Fayetteville, AR 72701
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File Number: 2022-0530
Agenda Date: 7/5/2022 Version: 1 Status: Passed
In Control: City Council Meetinq
Agenda Number: A.3
File Type: Resolution
ARKANSAS FULL-TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SALARY STIPEND ACT OF 2022
GRANT (ACT 224):
A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF A GRANT FROM THE ARKANSAS
FULL-TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SALARY STIPEND ACT OF 2022 IN THE AMOUNT
OF $771,020.00, AND TO APPROVE A BUDGET ADJUSTMENT
WHEREAS, Act 224 of 2022 provides a single payment of $5,000.00 plus federal benefit withholdings to all
current and future certified law enforcement officers through June 30, 2023.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS:
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby authorizes the acceptance of a
grant from the Arkansas Full -Time Law Enforcement Officer Salary Stipend Act of 2022, in the amount of
$771,020.00.
Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby approves a budget adjustment, a
copy of which is attached to this Resolution.
City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 1 Printed on 71612022
Mike Reynolds
City of Fayetteville Staff Review Form
2022-0530
Legistar File ID
7/5/2022
City Council Meeting Date - Agenda Item Only
N/A for Non -Agenda Item
6/14/2022
POLICE (200)
Submitted By Submitted Date Division / Department
Action Recommendation:
Acceptance of a stipend grant and approval of a budget adjustment to recognize funding from the Arkansas Full -
Time Law Enforcement Officer Salary Stipend Act of 2022 (Act 224) in the amount of $771,020. Act 224 provides a
single payment of $5,000 plus federal benefit withholdings to all current and future certified law enforcement
officers through June 30, 2023.
1010.200.2920-5120.00
Account Number
32203-2022
Project Number
Budgeted Item? No
Does item have a cost? No
Budget Adjustment Attached? Yes
Budget Impact:
General
Fund
Police - Act 224 Stipend
Project Title
Current Budget
Funds Obligated
Current Balance
Item Cost
Budget Adjustment
Remaining Budget
$ 771,020.00
V20210527
Purchase Order Number: Previous Ordinance or Resolution #
Change Order Number:
Original Contract Number:
Comments:
Approval Date:
CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE
Rid ARKANSAS
MEETING OF JULY 5, 2022
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Mike Reynolds, Chief of Police
DATE: June 14, 2022
CITY COUNCIL MEMO
MAU
SUBJECT: Arkansas Appropriation for Law Enforcement Stipend Grant
RECOMMENDATION:
Acceptance of a stipend grant and approval of a budget adjustment to recognize funding
from the Arkansas Full -Time Law Enforcement Officer Salary Stipend Act of 2022 (Act 224) in
the amount of $771,020.
BACKGROUND:
Arkansas' 93rd General Assembly passed Act 224 to make an appropriation for law
enforcement stipend grants for a single payment of $5,000 plus federal benefit withholdings
(social security and medicare) to all current and future certified law enforcement officers through
June 30, 2023. This grant funding does not require local matching funds.
DISCUSSION:
A certified law enforcement officer roster will be authorized and submitted to the State
for transfer of stipend grant funds. The City's Accounting Office will issue a one-time payroll
check to each certified law enforcement officer. Any newly hired law enforcement officer will be
eligible upon certification in Arkansas to receive this one-time stipend grant through June 30,
2023. The City's project accounting system will administer and track stipend grant funding
through Act 224.
BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT:
This stipend grant does not require local matching funds and has no impact on staffing
levels. Approval of this budget adjustment will establish revenue and expense budgets equal to
the stipend grant funding including any newly hired police officers who are certified through the
Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training by June 30, 2023.
Attachments:
Budget Adjustment
Act 224
Mailing Address:
113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov
Fayetteville, AR 72701
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Act 224 of the Fiscal Session
State of Arkansas As Engrossed: S2/23/22 S311122
93rd General Assembly A Bill
Fiscal Session, 2022 SENATE BILL 103
By: Senator Hickey
By: Representative Shepherd
For An Act To Be Entitled
AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
STIPEND GRANTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND
ADMINISTRATION - DISBURSING OFFICER FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2023; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Subtitle
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND
ADMINISTRATION - DISBURSING OFFICER
APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2022-2023 FISCAL
YEAR.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION - LAW ENFORCEMENT'STIPEND GRANTS. There is
hereby appropriated, to the Department of Finance and Administration -
Disbursing Officer, to be payable from the Law Enforcement Stipend Grants
Sub -Fund of the Miscellaneous Agencies Fund Account, for Law Enforcement
Stipend Grants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the following:
ITEM
(01) LAW ENFORCEMENT STIPEND GRANTS
FISCAL YEAR
2022-2023
S50,000,
SECTION 2. SPECIAL LANGUAGE. NOT TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE ARKANSAS
CODE NOR PUBLISHED SEPARATELY AS SPECIAL, LOCAL AND TEMPORARY LAW. LAW
ENFORCEMENT STIPEND GRANTS.
(�.0(1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Arkansas
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Full -Time Law Enforcement Officer Salary Stipend Act of 2022".
(2) It is the intent of the General Assembly that:
(A) An eligible full-time law enforcement officer is not
awarded_ more than one (1) salary stipend under this section even if the
eligible full-time Taw enforcement officer is employed by more than one (1)
eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement
agency during the applicable time period described under this section; and
(B) The salary stipends awarded under this section shall
not occur more than one (1) time unless authorized by the General Assembly in
subsequent legislation.
(3)(A) While all persons emplo ey d by a local or a state law
enforcement agency or other state agency, locality, or political subdivision
of the state are engaged in liportant and vital work in our criminal justice
system, it is the intent of the General Assembly to limit the salary stipends
provided for under this section to the most vital law enforcement officers
who are out on the street, literally standing between criminals and the
public or engaged in the active investigation of criminal acts committed
against the public at large.
(B) As such, the General Assembly intends for the salary
stipends to be awarded to our state troopers, our deputy county sheriffs, our
city and municipal police_ officers, our officers engaged in closely
supervising our probationers and parolees, detectives who solve crimes, our
patrolmen and patrolwomen, our criminal investigators, and any of the other
certified law enforcement officers who patrol and work our streets who are
the face of our communities, and who are active every day in protecting the
public and stopping and investigating crime.
L As used in this section:
(1) "Auxiliary law enforcement officer" means a person who:
(A) Meets the minimum standards and training requirements
prescribed for an auxiliary law enforcement officer by law;
(B) Receives no salary or wages for the performance of his
or her duties; and
(G) Is appointed by a political subdivision of the state
or a law enforcement agency as a reserve officer, volunteer officer, or
mounted patrol, not including any law enforcement officer or deputy county
sheriff employed by a planned community property owners' association;
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1 (2)(A) "Eligible full-time law enforcement officer" means a
2 person who:
3 (i) Is an appointed law enforcement officer
4 responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of
5 the criminal, traffic, or highway laws of this state;
6 ii Is employed b and receives a salary authorized
7 by an eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement
8 agency;
9 (111) Has the statutory authority to enforce the
10 criminal traffic and highway laws of the state and serves a law enforcement
11 function for an eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law
12 enforcement agency;
13 (iv) is employed as a law enforcement officer more
14 than twenty-four (242 hours per week; and
15 (v) Has satisfactorily completed a_program of basic
16 law enforcement training at a school approved by the Arkansas Commission on
17 Law Enforcement Standards and Training.
18 (B) "Eligib18 full-time law enforcement officer" includes
19 a person who satisfies the requirements of subdivision {b)(2)(A) of this
20 section and who is employed as specialized police personnel for the
21 Department of Corrections.
22 1C�ible full-time law enforcement officer" does not
23 include a person employed as:
24 i Specialized police personnel not employed by the
25 Department of Corrections, including without limitation:
26 (a) An employee of a county, regional, or city
27 jall or correctional or detention center who is not otherwise employed as an
28 edible full-time law enforcement officer;
29 (b) A probation or parole officer wh❑ is not
30 otherwise employed as an eligible full-time law enforcement officer; or
31 (c) A bailiff;
32 (li) An auxiliary law enforcement officer;
33 iii A art -time law enforcement officer•
34 (iv) A law enforcement officer of the United States
35 Government;
36 (v) An elected law enforcement officer who is:
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(a) Not a certified law enforcement officer;
(b) Employed as a law enforcement officer no
more than twenty-four (24) hours per week; or
(c) Both;
(vf) An employee of a law enforcement agency, state
agency, or state department who is not primarily involved in law enforcement;
(vfi2 A law enforcement officer who is currentl
p_endi" decertification as a law enforcement officer; or
(viii) A law enforcement officer primarily employed
as a law enforcement officer by an educational institution. includinz a
Dublic or private:
a Prekinder amen school;
(b) Primary school;
(c) Secondary school; or
(d) Institution of higher education;_
{3j "Eligible local law enforcement agency" means the following
that employ an eligible full-time law enforcement officer:
(A) An Arkansas county; or
(B) An Arkansas municipal police department;
4 "Eligible state law enforcement.a enc " means the Department:
of Public Safety and the Department of Corrections;
(5) "Part-time law enforcement officer" means a person who:
(A) Is employed by and receives a salary authorized by a
law enforcement agency;
(B) Has the statutory authority to enforce the criminal,
traffic, or highway laws of this state; and
(C) Is emploved as a law enforcement officer no more than
twenty-four (24) hours per week.
(6) "Retirement of the eligible full-time law enforcement
officer" means that an eligible full-time law enforcement officer has ceased
employment as an eligible full-time law enforcement officer with an eligible
local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement agency and is
scheduled or otherwise approved by the applicable retirement s stem or plan
to draw retirement benefits as a retired eligible full-time law enforcement
officeri and
(7) "Specialized police personnel" means a full-time or part-
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1 time law enforcement officer authorized by statute or employed by a law
2 enforcement agency whose duty as prescribed by law or ordinance is enforcing
3 some part of the criminal or highway laws of this state and whose authority
4 is limited to the facility or area in which he or she works.
5 (c)(1) Subject to an appropriation provided by the General Assembly,
6 an eligible full-time law enforcement officer who is:
7 (A) Employed by an eligible state law enforcement agency
8 or an eligible local law enforcement agency on duly 1, 2022, is eligible to
9 receive a one-time salary stipend as described under subsection (g) of this
10 section upon verification of eligibility for the salary stipend by the
11 Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Trainin • or
12 (B) First employed by an eligible local law enforcement
13 agency or an eligible state law enforcement agency after July I, 2022, but on
14 or before January 3I, 2023, shall receive a one-time salary stipend as
15 described under subsection of this section upon certification to the
16 division by the eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law
17 enforcement agency that the eligible full-time law enforcement officer is
18 currently employed by the eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible
19 state law enforcement agency as a full-time law enforcement officer at the
20 time of certification to the division.
21 2 An eligible local law enforcement agencyagenpy is required as a
22 condition of receiving funding for the salary stipends provided for under
23 this section to:
24 (A) Proactively request to the division for the salary
25 stipend funds to be distributed to an eligible full-time law enforcement
26 officer;
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(B) Acknowledge
(1) The
one-time disbursement and that request
that:
funding provided for under this section is a
for and subsequent receipt of funding
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for the salary stipends does not
in any manner entitle the
eligible local law
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enforcement agency for additional
funding for future salary
stipends; and
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(ii) if
law enforcement agency, the state
the funds are received by
is no longer responsible
the eligible local
to an individual
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eligible full-time law enforcement officer who is employed
by the eligible
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local law enforcement agency for
payment of the salary stipend
provided for
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1 (C) Adjust the eligible .local law enforcement agency's
2 budget to permit the disbursement of the salary stipends to the eligible
3 local law enforcement agency's full-time law enforcement officers as the
4 local governing body requires; and
5 (D) Agree to being subject to audit by Arkansas
6 Legislative Audit concernin the re nest for receipt of and disbursement of
7 the salary stipend funding.
8 (d)(1) Between July I. 2022, and August 1, 2022, an eligible local law
9 enforcement agency or an eligible state law enforcement agency that requests
10 funding for the salary sti2ends provided for under this section shall provide
11 a certification on a form provided by the division that identifies each
12 eligible full-time law enforcement officer employed by the eligible local law
13 enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement agency as a full-time
14 law enforcement officer on July 1j 2022._
15 (2) The form shall be signed by the chief law enforcement
16 officer of the eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law
17 enforcement agency and shall include:
18 (A) The name of the eligible full-time law enforcement
19 officer:_
20 (B) The date the eligible full-time law enforcement
21 officer began his or her current employment with the eligible local law
22 enforcement agency or eligible state _law enforcement agency as a full-time
23 law enforcement officer; and
24 (C) Any other .information required by the division to
25 properly verify eligibility for the salary stipend provided for by this
26 section.
27 (e) As soon as practicable, an eligible local law enforcement ajZency
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29 time law enforcement officer after July 1 2022 but on or before January 31,
30 2023, shall provide the form under subdivision (d)(1) of this section to the
31 division for the eligible full-time law enforcement officer.
32 jf) The division shall:
33 (1) Deny any form received under this section from an eligible
34 local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement agency for an
35 eligible full-time law enforcement officer first employed as a full-time law
36 enforcement officer after January 31, 2023i,
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1 (2) Deny any form received under this section from an eligible
2 local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement agency if the
3 form is received after June 1, 2023;
4 (3) Verify that each full-time law enforcement officer certified
5 to the division as eligible for the salary stipend satisfies the employment,
6 training, and other requirements for eligibility;
7 4 Provide a certification to the Secretary of the Department
8 of Finance and Administration that includes the following information:
9 A The name of each eligible local law enforcement agency
10 and eligible state law enforcement agency employing an eligible full-time law
11 enforcement officer;
12 (B) The name of any eligible full-time law enforcement
13 officer employed by an eligible local law enforcement agency or an eligible
14 state law enforcement agency that qualifies for the salary stipend provided
15 for by this section; and
16 C Any other information required by the secretary to
17 properly issue payments to an eligible local law enforcement a enc or -an
18 eligible state law enforcement agency under this section; and
19 (5) Adopt a form to be signed by an eligible full-time law
20 enforcement officer prior to receiving the salary stipend acknowled ina that
21 the eligible full-time law enforcement officer:
22 A Has read the requirements to receive and retain the
23 salary stipend;
24 (B) Satisfies the requirements of this section to receive
25 the salary stipend; and
26 (C) Is required by law to return the _salary stipend to the
27 eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement
28 agency issuing the salary stipend should he or she fail to comply with the
29 requirements to retain the salary stipend.
30 (z)(1) The secretary, in his or her capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer
31 of the State, shall:
32 A Transfer funds from the Law Enforcement Stipend Grant
33 Sub -fund in the Miscellaneous AjZencies Fund Account for use in issuin
34 payments to an eligible local law enforcement agency or an eligible state law
35 enforcement agency under _this _sect -ton;
36 B Issue a salary stipend to each eligible Iocal law
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1 enforcement agency equal to.
2 i Five thousand dollars S 000 for each eligible
3 full-time law enforcement officer certified by the division and employed by
4 that eligible local law enforcement agency as a full-time law enforcement
5 officer; and
6 (11) The employer's matching share of Social
7 Security and Medicare taxes due on that --alaKy stipend as required by federal
8 law in effect on January 1, 2022;,
9 (C) Initiate a fund transfer for a salary stipend to the
10 appropriate stare agency, fund for an eligible state law enforcement agency
11 employing a full-time law enforcement officer, as follows:
12 (1) The fund transfer shall be equal co:
13 (a) Two thousand dollars (52,000) for each
14 eligible full-time law enforcement officer certified by the division and
15 emploved by that eligible state law enforcement agency unless the eligible
16 full-time law enforcement officer has the primary job responsibility of
17 supervising arolees and probationers, in which case the amount is five
18 thousand dollars 5 000 and
19 (11) The employer's matching share of Social
20 Security and Medicare taxes due on that salary stipend as required by federal
21 law in effect on January 1, 2022; and
22 (D) Deny payment of the salary stipend based on a
23 certification form received from the division after June 15. 2023.
24 (2) An eligible full-time law enforcement officer shall not be
25 awarded more than one 1 salary stipend under this section even if the
26 eligible full-time law enforcement officer is employed by more than ❑ne (1)
27 eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law enforcement
28 agency_ duringthe_applcable time period described under this section.
29 h Both an eligible local law enforcement agency and an eligible
30 state law enforcement agency shall:
31 1 Pay the salary stipend under this section to an eligible
32 full-time law enforcement officer in the eligible full-time law enforcement
33 officer's next paycheck or as soon as practicable following receipt of funds
34 from the secretary;
35 (2) Withhold from the salary stipend_income taxes, the
36 employee's share of Social Security and Medicare taxes, and any other
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1 withholdings required by state or federal law or required by court order;
2 (32 Verify that -salary stipends are only issued to persons
3 meeting the eligibility requirements of this section; and
4 4 Shall not use the funds under this section for any other
5 urpose.
6 i I Funds received under this section shall be returned to the
7 secretary by the eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state law
8 enforcement agency if it is later determined that a person certified by the
9 division as eligible for the salary stipend was actually ineligible for the
10 salary stipend.
11 (2) A person who receives the salary stipend_ provided for by
12 this section who is subsequently decertified as a law enforcement officer
13 shall immediately return the salary stipend to the eligible local law
14 enforcement agency or eligible stare law enforcement agency issuing the
15 salary stipend if the decertification becomes effective within one hundred
16 eighty 180 days of the date the person received the salary stipend.
17 3 An eligible full -tame law enforcement officer who receives
18 the salary stipend provided for by this section and who resi ns his or her
19 employment or ceases to be employed with an eli able local law enforcement
20 agency or an eligible state law enforcement agency within one hundred eighty
21 (I80) days of receiving the salary stipend shall immediately return the
22 salary stipend to the eligible local law enforcement agency or eligible state
23 law enforcement agency issuing the salary stipend unless the resignation or
24 cessation of employment occurred:
25 A To immediately accept employment as an eligible full-
26 time law enforcement officer with another eligible local law enforcement
27 agency or an eligible state law enforcement agency;
28 (B) As a result of the death of the eligible full-time law
29 enforcement officer;
30 (C) As a result of the retirement of the eligible full-
31 time law enforcement officer;
32 D Due to a medical necessity of the eligible full-time
33 law enforcement officer or a member of the eligible full-time law enforcement
34 officer's familyi or
35 (E) For reasons beyond the eligible full-time law
36 enforcement officer's control.
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1 (4) An eligible local law enforcement agency or an eligible
2 state law enforcement agency that receives a return of a salary stipend under
3 subdivision (1)(2) or subdivision (1)(3) of this section shall return the
4 returned salary stipend to the secretary immediatelv following receipt of the
5 returned salary stipend.
6 5 A If the division or the secretarx determines that an
7 eligible local law enforcement agency of a county, city, or town has failed
8 to properly pay the salary stipend to an eligible full-time law enforcement
9 officer as required by this section or has failed to return a salary stipend
10 returned by an eligible full-time law enforcement officer who was
11 decertified resigned, or otherwise ceased employment, the division or the
12 secretary shall notify the Treasurer of State.
13 (B) Upon notification under subdivision (i)(5)(A) of this
14 section, the Treasurer of State shall then withhold from the county or
15 municipal aid of the county, city, or town an amount equal to the funds that
16 were improperly paid to the eligible full-time Yaw enforcement officer or not
17 properly returned and shall remit those amounts to the secretary for deposit
18 into the General Revenue Allotment Reserve Fund.
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knowingly fails to
An eligible local law enforcement_Mency that
abide by the requirements of this subsection is sublect to
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an administrative
penalty equaling
ten percent (10%)
of
the funds received
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improperly
returned, plus interest
at
the rate of ten
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annum and
any other assessed fees,
as
determined by the
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under subdivision
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Administrative penalties,
of this section shall be
interest, and fees
deposited into the
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An appeal from an adverse decision by the secretary
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concerning the
failure
to abide by the
requirements of this subsection may be
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made to the Legislative
Council, or if
the General Assembly is in session,
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the Joint Budget
Committee, which shall
proceed with hearing the appeal
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sublect to the
rules of
the Legislative
Council. or if applicable. the Joint
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.joint Budget Committee, may issue
Legislative Council or,
an advisory opinion as
if applicable,
to the validity of
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the appeal and shall forward the
advisory opinion to the
Director of the
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1 Department of Finance and Administration.
2 (1)(1) By June 30, 2023, an eligible local law enforcement agencv or
3 an eligible state law enforcement ageizcv receiving funds under this section
4 shall submit a report to the division certifying that each eligible full-time
5 law enforcement officer who was verified by the .division received the salary
6 stipend and the amount paid to each eligible full-time law enforcement
7 officer.
8 (2) The division shall prepare and submit a report containing
9 the data described under subdivision (1)(1) of this section to the cochairs
10 of the Legislative Council no later than October 1, 2023.
11 (k) The division shall promulgate rules establishing a review process
12 to determine:
13 (I) Whether a person was properly denied payment of the salary
14 stipend for failure to satisfy the requirements necessary to qualify as an
15 eligible full-time law enforcement officer; and
16 (22 Whether a person was properly required to return the salary
17 stipend,
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19 SECTION 3. SPECIAL LANGUAGE. NOT TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE ARKANSAS
20 CODE NOR PUBLISHED SEPARATELY AS SPECIAL, LOCAL AND TEMPORARY LAW. FUNDING
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TRANSFER. (i) Immediately upon
the effective date of
this Section or as soon
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as is practicable, the Chief
Fiscal Officer of the State shall transfer on
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his or her books and those of
the State Treasurer and
the Auditor of the
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State the sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,0002
from the General Revenue
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Allotment Reserve Fund to the
Law Enforcement Stipend
Grant Sub -Fund in the
26 Miscellaneous Agencies Fund Account to Drovide fundine exclusively for the
27 Law Enforcement Stipend Grants Appropriation in Section 1 in this Act to be
28 distributed as set out in Law Enforcement Stipend Grants Special Language in
29 Section 2 of this Act.
30 (11) Any funds not expended in the Law Enforcement Stipend Grant Sub-
31 Fund in the Miscellaneous Agencies Fund Account as established in subsection
32 i herein after June 30 2023 shall be transferred to the General Revenue
33 Allotment Reserve Fund.
34 (111) The provisions of this section shall be in effect upon passage
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1 SECTION 4. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER LAWS. Disbursement of funds
2 authorized by this act shall be limited to the appropriation for such agency
3 and funds made available by law for the support of such appropriations; and
4 the restrictions of the State Procurement Law, the General Accounting and
5 Budgetary Procedures Law, the Revenue Stabilization Law, the Regular Salary
6 Procedures and Restrictions Act, or their successors, and other fiscal
7 control laws of this State, where applicable, and regulations promulgated by
8 the Department of Finance and Administration, as authorized by law, shall be
9 strictly complied with in disbursement of said funds.
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11 SECTION 5. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of the General
12 Assembly that any funds disbursed under the authority of the appropriations
13 contained in this act shall be in compliance with the stated reasons for
14 which this act was adopted, as evidenced by the Agency Requests, Executive
15 Recommendations and Legislative Recommendations contained in the budget
16 manuals prepared by the Department of Finance and Administration, letters, or
17 summarized oral testimony in the official minutes of the Arkansas Legislative
18 Council or Joint Budget Committee which relate to its passage and adoption.
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20 SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. Section 1. 4. and 5 of this act are
21 effective on and after July 1, 2022.
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23 SECTION 7. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is found and determined by the General
24 Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the safety and security of Arkansas
25 citizens and businesses require the presence of a trained workforce of
26 qualified law enforcement officers; -that economic conditions have _impaired
27 the ability of state and local governments to recruit and retain qualified
28 law enforcement officers; and that Sections 2 and 3 of this act would improve
29 the safety of all citizens by providing immediate financial benefits to
30 encourage the recruitment and retention of qualified law enforcement
31 officers. Therefore an emergency is declared to exist and Sections 2 and 3
32 of this act being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public
33 peace, health and safety shall become effective on:
34 [1} The date of its approval by the Governor;
35 (2) If the bill is neither approved nor vetoed by the Governor,
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APPROVED: 3/8/22
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City of Fayetteville, Arkansas - Budget Adjustment Form (Legistar)
Budget Year Division Adjustment Number
/Org2 POLICE (200)
2022
Requestor: W. Newman
BUDGET ADJUSTMENT DESCRIPTION / JUSTIFICATION:
Recognize funding from the Arkansas Full -Time Law Enforcement Officer Salary Stipend Act of 2022 (Act 224) for
certified law enforcement officer stipends.
RESOLUTION/ORDINANCE
COUNCIL DATE
LEGISTAR FILE ID#
7/5/2022
2022-0530
Ho-U.y Black
6/9/2022 9:54 AM
Budget Director
TYPE:
JOURNAL #:
GLDATE:
CHKD/POSTED:
Date
D - (City Council)
7/5/2022
TOTAL 771,020 771,020 v.20220516
Increase / (Decrease) Project.Sub#
Account Number Expense Revenue Project Sub.Detl AT Account Name
1010.200.2920-4302.01 - 771,020 32203 2022 RE State Grants - Operational
1010.200.2920-5120.00 771,020 - 32203 2022 EX Personnel Other - Contra
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Increase / (Decrease) Project.Sub#
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