Appropriates $77,449,600 to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 572.85.

Appropriates a total of $77,449,600 to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 572.85. The bill includes funding for the employer's share of increased benefit costs; replacement items; changes made in the statewide cost allocation plan; an ongoing 3% merit-based increase in employee compensation for permanent employees to be distributed at the discretion of agency heads; and the 27th payroll. Line items include: $558,100 to realign personnel costs between the Project CHOICE Fund and the Idaho Law Enforcement Fund for moneys borrowed against Project CHOICE; $967,900 to replace regional communication center radio/phone console and recording systems; $179,000 to implement a pay retention plan for regional communication officers; $257,000 to hire four additional staff in support of the regional communications centers; $257,200 to hire two new forensic scientists and upgrade two classified part-time forensic scientists to full-time; $194,300 to provide furnishings and moving services for the new facility in Pocatello that is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2017; $318,800 to hire two additional investigators; $42,000 for Forensic Service software suite maintenance; $1,400,000 to replace the current Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)/National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS); $200,000 in federal spending authority for a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program grant; $60,000 in equitable share federal funds to purchase undercover equipment; $160,000 in federal funding received by the Idaho Statistical Analysis Center; and $18,700 to cover the department's share of the negotiated rent increases for repeater sites located on endowment trust lands.