The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military, Veterans and State Police on a roll‑call summary approved the S‑1 version of Senate Bill 176 and reported the bill to the full Senate Appropriations Committee.

“The bill is talking about Senate Bill 176, FY '26 Appropriations for the Department of State Police. There are 1,015,000,000.7 gross dollars in the budget bill, which includes 687.9 general funds,” Senate fiscal analyst Bruce Baker told the subcommittee as he summarized the proposed spending and boilerplate carryovers.

Baker said the S‑1 removes a current $105,000,000 cap on FEMA disaster funds to be received by the department and detailed a series of new and continued programmatic appropriations. Notable changes include $143,600 in general funds for intelligence operation software; an alignment of authorizations with expected revenues totaling roughly $1,900,000 gross (no GF change); removal of certain one‑time appropriations; economic adjustments (about $59,400,000 gross and $49,800,000 GF); and a $1,000,000 ongoing increase for the Office of School Safety to expand school safety academy capacity.

One‑time appropriations enumerated in the summary include $10,000,000 for community infrastructure to add to the disaster and emergency contingency fund; $1,000,000 for cold case investigations (supporting MSP and state universities); $1,000,000 for a Public Safety Heroes program; $1,000,000 for statewide fentanyl enforcement; $1,000,000 for the Okay to Say program; $500,000 for law enforcement communication training; $10,000,000 for a public safety academy assistance program; and $500,000 in grants for public safety critical incident mapping.

Senator Hertel noted the significance of removing the FEMA cap, saying communities in his district “are still receiving FEMA funds from floods that occurred a few years back” and that the cap had impeded getting dollars to communities after disasters. He described the fentanyl enforcement and public safety academy funds as responses to ongoing statewide needs.

Senator Kleinfeld moved to adopt the S‑1 package and to report the bill; the motions were supported by Senator Hertel. The clerk recorded two affirmative responses and one absence or nonresponse for the adoption vote and later summarized the report vote as two affirmative and one not voting; the S‑1 was reported to the full Appropriations Committee.

The subcommittee adjourned after completing action on SB 176.

(Reporting note: dollar figures and program lists are drawn from the Senate fiscal analyst’s summary as spoken into the subcommittee record.)