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preliminary report due November 15, 2023, and in a final report due 1 September 30, 2024. The reports should include the following: 2 (a) Identifying the demand for additional basic law enforcement 3 academy courses to support law enforcement agencies and develop a 4 proposal to meet any identified training needs, including basic law 5 enforcement academy and advanced training needs; 6 (b) A plan for how to provide basic law enforcement academy 7 training to limited law enforcement officers and tribal law 8 enforcement officers, including providing additional capacity for 9 training classes. The plan should also consider alternatives for 10 distribution of the costs of the training course; and 11 (c) A plan for providing at least two basic law enforcement 12 training academy classes per year to candidates who are not yet 13 employed with a law enforcement agency. The plan should, at a 14 minimum, include the following: 15 (i) A recruitment strategy that emphasizes recruitment of diverse 16 candidates from different geographic areas of the state; diverse 17 race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation; and candidates with 18 diverse backgrounds and experiences including nontraditional 19 educational programs or work experience; 20 (ii) Pathways from training to employment with a law enforcement 21 agency; and 22 (iii) Plans to address capacity for and delivery of training. 23 (14) $1,000,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 24 fiscal year 2024 and $1,000,000 of the general fund—state 25 appropriation for fiscal year 2025 are provided solely for the 26 criminal justice training commission to provide accreditation 27 incentive awards. 28 (a) The commission may provide an accreditation incentive award 29 totaling up to $50,000 to each law enforcement agency that receives 30 an accreditation during the fiscal biennium from a national or state 31 accrediting entity recognized by the commission. The commission must 32 divide award amounts provided pursuant to this section equally among 33 qualifying law enforcement agencies. A law enforcement agency may not 34 receive more than one accreditation incentive award per fiscal 35 biennium. Funds received by a law enforcement agency pursuant to this 36 subsection must be made available to the law enforcement agency to 37 which they are awarded and may not supplant or replace existing 38 funding received by the law enforcement agency. 39 p. 301 ESSB 5187.SL