HB 2116 Summary

• Authorizes five specific cities to impose a sales tax up to one-half of one percent on retail sales, subject to voter approval, with revenue dedicated to public safety including police, fire, and emergency medical services.

• Expands the "Line of Duty Compensation Act" to include air ambulance pilots, air ambulance registered professional nurses, and emergency medical technicians as eligible recipients of $25,000 death benefits, and clarifies the definition of "killed in the line of duty" to include deaths occurring within 300 weeks of injury.

• Transfers regulation and licensing of corporate security advisors from city police commissioners to the state Department of Public Safety.

• Modifies false impersonation statute to explicitly include displaying a badge or credential when falsely representing oneself as a public servant, and increases the penalty for impersonating a law enforcement officer from class B misdemeanor to class A misdemeanor.

• Increases crime victim compensation limits from $200 to $400 per week for lost earnings and expands the definition of disarming a peace officer to include deadly weapons and less-lethal weapons such as chemical or conducted energy devices.