Arizona 2022 Regular Session

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1		-	~~Senate Engrossed~~ antihuman trafficking grant fund; appropriation State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022 ~~SENATE BILL~~ 1709 An Act amending title 41, chapter 41, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-4259; appropriating monies; relating to the Arizona department of homeland security. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
	1	+	REFERENCE TITLE: antihuman trafficking grant fund; appropriation State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022 SB 1709 Introduced by Senators Gowan: Borrelli; Representatives Biasiucci, Payne AN ACT Amending title 41, chapter 41, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-4259; appropriating monies; relating to the arizona department of homeland security. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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9		-	~~Senate Engrossed~~ antihuman trafficking grant fund; appropriation
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53	56		Amending title 41, chapter 41, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-4259; appropriating monies; relating to the arizona department of homeland security.
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63	66		Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 41, chapter 41, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-4259, to read: START_STATUTE41-4259. Antihuman trafficking grant fund; program eligibility; requirements A. The Antihuman trafficking grant FUND is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated. The arizona department of homeland security shall administer the fund and DISTRIBUTE MONIES from the fund to programs to reduce human trafficking in this state. To be eligible for grant monies, an antihuman trafficking program must do the following: 1. Reduce transnational organized crime. 2. Provide training, analytical services and network discovery tools to the Department of Public Safety and other Law Enforcement Agencies applying for grants. 3. Proactively detect and track networks, including identifying key players, assets and patterns of life. 4. Augment prosecutorial practices to allow law enforcement agencies to target entire networks and their facilitators. 5. Track investigative leads using tools and analytic methods. 6. Reduce uniformed and civilian staff hours needed to detect and track leads. 7. Foster interagency collaboration. B. An antihuman trafficking program shall use private contractors and provide training, analytical services and human trafficking network discovery tools to law ENFORCEMENT agencies in this state to: 1. Proactively detect and track networks through technology that is calibrated to identify key players, assets and patterns of life and that augments current prosecutorial practices, which require traumatized victims to carry the burden of testimony, with quantifiable data that allows law enforcement agencies to target entire trafficking networks and facilitators. 2. Reduce by fifty percent the number of staff hours needed to detect and track investigative leads by applying tools and analytic methods developed by the private contractor. 3. Foster efficiency and interagency collaboration within law enforcement agencies by identifying and thoroughly mapping a greater number of transnational criminal organizations to develop prosecutable evidence in a greatly reduced time frame. END_STATUTE Sec. 2. Appropriation; antihuman trafficking grant fund; exemption A. The sum of $10,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the antihuman trafficking grant fund established by section 41-4259, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act. B. The Arizona department of homeland security shall allocate the monies as follows: 1. $2,000,000 to the department of public safety Arizona counter terrorism information center for antihuman trafficking operations that comply with the requirements prescribed in section 41-4259, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act. 2. $8,000,000 in award grants to municipal and county law enforcement agencies, not to exceed $500,000 per agency, for programs that reduce human trafficking and that comply with the requirements prescribed in section 41-4259, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act. C. The appropriation made in subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
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67	70		Section 1. Title 41, chapter 41, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-4259, to read:
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69	72		START_STATUTE41-4259. Antihuman trafficking grant fund; program eligibility; requirements
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71	74		A. The Antihuman trafficking grant FUND is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated. The arizona department of homeland security shall administer the fund and DISTRIBUTE MONIES from the fund to programs to reduce human trafficking in this state. To be eligible for grant monies, an antihuman trafficking program must do the following:
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75	78		2. Provide training, analytical services and network discovery tools to the Department of Public Safety and other Law Enforcement Agencies applying for grants.
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77	80		3. Proactively detect and track networks, including identifying key players, assets and patterns of life.
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87	90		B. An antihuman trafficking program shall use private contractors and provide training, analytical services and human trafficking network discovery tools to law ENFORCEMENT agencies in this state to:
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89	92		1. Proactively detect and track networks through technology that is calibrated to identify key players, assets and patterns of life and that augments current prosecutorial practices, which require traumatized victims to carry the burden of testimony, with quantifiable data that allows law enforcement agencies to target entire trafficking networks and facilitators.
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91	94		2. Reduce by fifty percent the number of staff hours needed to detect and track investigative leads by applying tools and analytic methods developed by the private contractor.
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93	96		3. Foster efficiency and interagency collaboration within law enforcement agencies by identifying and thoroughly mapping a greater number of transnational criminal organizations to develop prosecutable evidence in a greatly reduced time frame. END_STATUTE
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97	100		A. The sum of $10,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the antihuman trafficking grant fund established by section 41-4259, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act.
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99	102		B. The Arizona department of homeland security shall allocate the monies as follows:
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101	104		1. $2,000,000 to the department of public safety Arizona counter terrorism information center for antihuman trafficking operations that comply with the requirements prescribed in section 41-4259, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act.
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103	106		2. $8,000,000 in award grants to municipal and county law enforcement agencies, not to exceed $500,000 per agency, for programs that reduce human trafficking and that comply with the requirements prescribed in section 41-4259, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act.
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105	108		C. The appropriation made in subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.