Sec. 4. Grants

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The Attorney General shall award grants to applicants for— law enforcement officers to receive training from behavioral health crisis response program; and the cost of transportation and lodging associated with law enforcement officers attending program. The Attorney General shall establish and publish qualification standards for organizations that provide behavioral health crisis response programs. The chief law enforcement officer of an applicant shall submit to the Attorney General an application that— shall include— a statement describing the program the law enforcement officers will complete; the total number of law enforcement officers in the agency; the number of law enforcement officers of the agency that have been killed, or seriously injured while responding to a behavioral health crisis during the 5-year-period preceding the date of the application; and whether the law enforcement officers employed by the agency receive any behavioral health crisis response training, including during basic police officer training; and in addition to the information required under subparagraph (A), may, at the option of the applicant, include information relating to— recent incidents involving law enforcement officers of the agency in which behavioral health crisis response training could have played a role in protecting the safety of the law enforcement officer or the public, including the persons or persons the law enforcement officers encountered; and estimated cost of attendance of a program per law enforcement officer.

Grant funds shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, State, local, and tribal funds made available to any applicant for any of the purposes described in subsection (a). Not more than 3 percent of any grant made under this section may be used for administrative costs. For each year during which grant funds are used, the recipient shall submit to the Attorney General a report containing— a summary of any activity carried out using grant funds; the number of officers that received training using grant funds; and any other information relevant to the purpose of this Act that the Attorney General may determine appropriate.

For the purpose of an audit by the Attorney General of the receipt and use of grant funds, a recipient shall— keep— any record relating to the receipt and use of grant funds; and any other record as the Attorney General may require; and make the records described in subparagraph

(A)available to the Attorney General upon request by the Attorney General.