HB 2860 Summary

• Establishes the Anti-human Trafficking Grant Fund administered by the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to support programs that assist law enforcement and provide victim services and training to prevent and identify human trafficking.

• Creates a community treatment program for imprisoned women and their children, operated by a contracted nonprofit entity, providing trauma-informed substance abuse and mental health treatment, parenting skills, and employment services.

• Establishes the Major Incident Division within the Department of Public Safety to conduct independent investigations of critical force incidents (firearm discharges and deadly force uses by peace officers) when requested by local law enforcement agencies.

• Reallocates percentages of criminal justice enhancement fund distributions among various state agencies and programs, including adjustments to the department of public safety forensics fund, prosecuting attorneys' council, courts, sheriffs, and county attorneys.

• Creates the State Aid for Juvenile Dependency Proceedings Fund to provide state aid to county public defenders and indigent defense counsel for processing juvenile dependency cases, distributed based on increases in case filings above 2012-2015 baseline levels.