The bill reenacts and amends RCW 43.101.200 (the Criminal Justice Training Commission statute) and creates a new section in chapter 82.14 RCW to authorize a new local sales and use tax. It allows a county or city legislative authority to impose a 0.10 percent sales and use tax, collected from persons taxable under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW, with the tax credited against state tax under those chapters. If a city and county both impose the tax, the city tax must be credited against the county tax. A state department (not named in the provided text) must collect and remit the tax on behalf of the local jurisdiction at no cost to that jurisdiction, with remittance procedures referenced to RCW 82.14.060. The bill limits how tax revenue may be used: proceeds must be used solely to employ additional commissioned law enforcement officers, except where a jurisdiction’s local commissioned rate per 1,000 population exceeds the national commissioned rate per 1,000 population; in that case the jurisdiction may use the money in the current calendar year for broader criminal justice purposes. The bill defines “criminal justice purposes” to include activities that substantially assist the criminal justice system, may include ancillary civil justice benefits, and explicitly includes domestic violence services; for the period after May 13, 2021 through December 31, 2026, it also includes local programs reasonably related to reducing the number of people interacting with the criminal justice system, including reducing homelessness and improving behavioral health. Local and national commissioned rates are to be determined using data reported to the federal uniform crime program as of October of the prior calendar year. The amendment to RCW 43.101.200 updates basic law enforcement training timing, completion, reimbursement, and administrative provisions for the Criminal Justice Training Commission. It sets commencement and completion windows for different categories of personnel (including distinctions for personnel hired before/after specific dates and for limited authority Washington peace officers), requires the commission to review training files for certain limited authority officers, and specifies transfer-exemption conditions. It addresses who pays for facilities and training costs in various fiscal periods, provides for limited reimbursements to small agencies for temporary replacements, requires limited authority agencies to reimburse the commission for full training costs of their personnel, and mandates minimum numbers of basic training classes beginning in fiscal year 2026 (27 classes) and fiscal year 2027 (28 classes), with the legislature required to appropriate sufficient funding. The changes are primarily a new local tax authority (new law section) with specified use and collection rules and amendments to existing training law (procedural changes and funding/reimbursement rules). No new crimes or penalty changes are stated in the provided text. The name of the state department that will collect and remit the tax is not specified here, and the full scope of the reenactment and any referenced exceptions (for example references to subsection (2) and RCW 43.101.170) are not fully shown in the extracted facts.

If enacted, cities and counties could add a small local sales and use tax of 0.10% to raise money mostly dedicated to hiring additional full‑time commissioned law enforcement officers. The state tax agency would collect and remit the revenue for local governments at no charge, and a city’s levy would be credited against a county’s if both adopt it. Jurisdictions whose commissioned officer rate per 1,000 people exceeds the national rate could instead spend the money more broadly on criminal justice purposes (which can include domestic violence services and, through 2026, programs aimed at reducing criminal justice involvement such as homelessness and behavioral health efforts); those rate comparisons use FBI uniform crime program data from October of the prior year. The practical winners are local governments that choose to impose the tax and their police agencies, which would likely gain a dedicated funding stream to hire officers, while local residents would pay the small additional tax. The Criminal Justice Training Commission must expand basic training class capacity (at least 27 classes in FY2026 and 28 thereafter), so the commission will need more funding and will enforce training, reimbursement, and transfer rules that could raise costs for smaller and limited‑authority agencies (limited‑authority agencies must reimburse full training costs; agencies with 10 or fewer patrol officers may be eligible for limited temporary replacement reimbursement subject to available funds). It’s unclear from the provided text which specific state department will collect the tax and some amendment details and exceptions referenced in other statutes are not shown here.