This bill addresses provisions related to public safety.
This bill:
- enacts provisions requiring a law enforcement agency of a city that is the seat of government for a county of the first class to enter into an interagency agreement related to public safety concerns with the Department of Public Safety (the department) and repeals the provisions, subject to a review by an interim committee, on July 1, 2027;
- enacts provisions requiring a law enforcement agency that has entered into an interagency agreement with the department to submit a report to the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee regarding the interagency agreement and repeals the provisions, subject to a review by an interim committee, on July 1, 2027;
- enacts provisions allowing the Division of Facilities Construction and Management to use eminent domain to condemn unincorporated property owned by a city that is the seat of government for a county of the first class in certain circumstances that are repealed on July 1, 2027;
- enacts provisions taking effect on July 1, 2026, related to procedures that are required to be undertaken by a law enforcement agency before the law enforcement agency may take an adverse decision regarding a law enforcement officer's employment; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 35A-16-402, 63I-1-235, 63I-1-253, 63I-1-272, 72-2-108
Substitute #1: 63I-1-253, 63I-2-263
Substitute #2: 63I-1-253, 63I-2-263
Substitute #3: 63I-1-253, 63I-2-263
Enrolled: 63I-1-253, 63I-2-263
Substitute #4: 63I-1-253, 63I-2-263