Budget Amendment ID: FY2022-S3-598

EPS 598

Battery Powered Extrication Tools Grant

Messrs. Tarr and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 8324-0000, by inserting the following words:-"; provided further, that $2,000,000 shall be expended for a grant program to assist municipalities with the cost of acquiring battery powered extrication rescue tools, provided further that no grant from such program shall exceed $25,000 to a single municipality, and such be conditioned upon a match of local funds of not more than 25%, provided further that such grants shall be awarded not later than nine months following the passage of this act, in a fair and equitable manner with regard to geographic dispersion, population, and need, and that the department shall develop a report detailing the grants awarded, provided further that such report shall include but not be limited to grant recipients and amounts, and such report shall be filed with the clerks of the House and Senate, the Ways and Means Committees of the House and Senate, the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, and posted electronically in a publicly accessible manner" and by striking the figure "$29,392,332" and inserting in place thereof the following figure:-"$31,392,332".