A. Annually on or before April 15, the division shall consider and determine the relative needs as requested by tribal, municipal, school district and university police departments, county sheriff’s departments, the department of public safety and the academy for money in the fund in the succeeding fiscal year pursuant to the provisions of Subsections C and E of this section.

B. As necessary during the year, the division shall transfer an amount from the fund to the peace officers’, New Mexico mounted patrol members’ and reserve police officers’ survivors fund that enables the balance of the peace officers’, New Mexico mounted patrol members’ and reserve police officers’ survivors fund to be maintained at a minimum balance of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) through fiscal year 2023 and one million dollars ($1,000,000) thereafter.

C. The division shall determine the rate of distribution of money in the fund as follows:

(1)     all municipal police, school district police and county sheriff’s departments shall be entitled to a rate of distribution of forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) through fiscal year 2023 and ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) thereafter;

(2)     university police departments shall be entitled to a rate of distribution of forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) through fiscal year 2023 and ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) thereafter;

(3)     the academy shall be entitled to a rate of distribution of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars ($24,500) to carry out the purposes of Section 29-7-7.7 N.M. Stat. Ann. and to a rate of distribution of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to carry out the purposes of the Law Enforcement Training Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 29, Article 7];

(4)     tribal police departments shall be entitled, unless allocations are adjusted pursuant to the provisions of Subsection D of this section, to one thousand dollars ($1,000) through fiscal year 2023 and one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) thereafter for each commissioned peace officer in the tribe. To be counted as a commissioned peace officer for the purposes of this paragraph, a commissioned peace officer shall have been assigned to duty and have worked in New Mexico for no fewer than two hundred days in the calendar year immediately prior to the date of payment. Payments shall be made for only those divisions of the tribal police departments that perform services in New Mexico. A tribal police department shall not be eligible for any disbursement under the fund if commissioned peace officers cite non-Indians into the tribal court for civil or criminal citations;

(5)     municipal, school district and university police and county sheriff’s departments shall be entitled, unless allocations are adjusted pursuant to the provisions of Subsection D of this section, to one thousand dollars ($1,000) through fiscal year 2023 and one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) thereafter for each police officer or sheriff’s deputy employed full time by that department who has been certified by the law enforcement certification board as a police officer or has been authorized to act as a New Mexico peace officer pursuant to the provisions of Section 29-1-11 N.M. Stat. Ann.; and

(6)     municipal police, sheriff’s and school district police departments that assign officers as school resource officers shall be entitled to one thousand dollars ($1,000) through fiscal year 2023 and one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) thereafter for each assigned school resource officer’s training pursuant to Section 29-7- 14 NMSA 1978.

D. After distributions are determined in accordance with Subsection A, Subsection B and Paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (6) of Subsection C of this section, if the balance in the fund is insufficient to permit the total allocations provided by Paragraphs (4) and (5) of Subsection C of this section, the division shall reduce that allocation to the maximum amount permitted by available money.

E. After all distributions have been made in accordance with Subsections A through D of this section, and if the balance in the fund is sufficient, the department of public safety shall be entitled to a rate of distribution of not more than two million dollars ($2,000,000).

F. The division shall confirm, before making any distribution under this section, that the beneficiary is in compliance with all of the beneficiary’s statutory reporting requirements, including those described in Subsection C of Section 29-3-11 N.M. Stat. Ann., Subsection B of Section 29-7-7.1 N.M. Stat. Ann. and Sections 29-7-7.2, 29-7C-7 and 29-7C-8 N.M. Stat. Ann..