Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

This bill requires a state or local law enforcement agency seeking to acquire property through a United States department of defense program or to acquire certain equipment, such as machine guns, armored vehicles, night vision scopes, camouflage fatigues, and flash ban grenades, to provide 90-days written notice to the following: <br /> <br /> (1) The joint government operations committee of the house of representatives and the senate if the agency is a state law enforcement agency. Upon receiving the notice, the committee must make a recommendation to the department of safety as to whether to approve or disapprove the request. The department must review the notice and recommendation, and may approve the request in whole or in part; or <br /> <br /> (2) The governing body of the jurisdiction that funds the agency if the agency is a local law enforcement agency. Upon receiving notice, the governing body must approve or deny the request by adoption of a resolution.<br /> <br /> This bill requires that, on or before October 1, 2023, each law enforcement agency must create an inventory of all property the agency has acquired through a United States department of defense program and still possesses, and equipment as described above that the agency possesses. For each item in the inventory, the agency must describe the demonstrated need for the agency to possess that property and equipment, the training that is provided for officers to use that property and equipment, and the annual storage and maintenance costs to keep the property and equipment. With regard to that inventory, the following applies:<br /> <br /> (1) If the agency is a state law enforcement agency, then the inventory report must be submitted to the joint government operations committee of the house of representatives and the senate. Upon receiving the notice, the joint government operations committee must make a recommendation to the department of safety as to whether to approve or disapprove the request. The department must review the notice and recommendation, and may approve the request in whole or in part; and<br /> <br /> (2) If the agency is a local law enforcement agency, then the inventory report must be submitted to the governing body of the jurisdiction that funds the agency. The governing body must review the inventory list and may approve the inventory in whole or in part, by adoption of a resolution. <br /> <br /> This bill requires that any inventory disapproved for use must be transferred to the department of general services for disposal.<br />