SB 572 - This act establishes a pilot program known asthe "Community Crime Reduction Grant Program" which shall provide money to qualifying municipal police departments. The grants provided under this act shall be subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and shall be equally dispersed among qualifying municipal police departments. To qualify, a municipal police department must: • Employ less than two officers per one thousand people; and • Serve a city with a population of 75,000 inhabitants to 125,000 inhabitants that is located in a first class county. Grants received from the program shall be used as payment for the following: • Up to 50% of the cost of employing new law enforcement officers needed to raise the department's officer to population ratio to two officers per one thousand people; and • Up to 100% of the cost for law enforcement officers hired with grant money by the municipal police department to attend not less than one seminar relating to fair and impartial policing and one seminar relating to racial sensitivity at the University of Missouri Law Enforcement Training Institute. Municipal police departments receiving grants under the program shall submit an annual report with information as provided in the act to the Department of Public Safety on or before December 31 of each year in which the Department received the grant money. This act also creates the "Community Crime Reduction Program Fund" which shall consist of all gifts, bequests, transfers, and money appropriated by the General Assembly for the program. The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the Fund and may approve disbursements. Money from the Fund shall be used solely by the Department of Public Safety to issue grants to qualifying municipal police departments through the program. The Department of Public Safety shall administer the grants issued under the program and promulgate all rules and regulations for the administration of the program. The provisions in this act shall sunset after four years unless reauthorized by the General Assembly. This act is substantially similar to HB 2466 (2016). MARY GRACE BRUNTRAGER