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recruitment efforts to begin adding new staff and rebuilding lost 1 capacity. 2 (d) By December 1, 2022, the authority must submit an accounting 3 to the office of financial management and the appropriate committees 4 of the legislature that includes a list of all recipients of funding 5 under this subsection and the amount of funding received. 6 (e) Within the amounts appropriated in this subsection, the 7 authority may utilize up to $200,000 to conduct a qualitative 8 analysis of how recipients utilized funds for workforce retention and 9 recruitment, which may include hiring a consultant and a survey of 10 selected recipients. The authority must report on the findings of the 11 qualitative analysis to the office of financial management and the 12 appropriate committees of the legislature by December 1, 2023. 13 (((105))) (104) $500,000 of the general fund—state appropriation 14 for fiscal year 2023 is provided solely for the authority to contract 15 with the University of Washington addictions, drug, and alcohol 16 institute. This funding must be used to develop, refine, and pilot a 17 new, advanced, evidence-based training for law enforcement to improve 18 interactions with individuals who use drugs. The training must be 19 developed so it can be adapted and used statewide to decrease 20 stigmatizing beliefs among law enforcement through positive contact 21 with people who use drugs and improve officer well-being and 22 effectiveness by providing skills and techniques to address the drug 23 overdose epidemic. The institute must develop and refine this 24 training, leveraging prior work, and in partnership with a steering 25 committee that includes people with lived or living experience of 26 substance use disorder and criminal legal involvement, researchers, 27 clinicians, law enforcement officers, and others. The training must 28 complement, but not duplicate, existing curricula already provided by 29 the criminal justice training commission. The institute must pilot 30 the advanced training in a subset of regional law enforcement 31 agencies and evaluate its acceptability and feasibility through 32 participant interviews and pretraining and posttraining ratings of 33 stigmatizing beliefs. The institute must incorporate feedback from 34 the pilot training sessions into a final training program that it 35 must make available to law enforcement agencies across the state. 36 (((106))) (105) $300,000 of the general fund—state appropriation 37 for fiscal year 2023 and $300,000 of the general fund—federal 38 appropriation are provided on a one-time basis solely for the 39 p. 1043 ESSB 5187.SL