The award period for this grant shall be October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026.
All projects must conclude, and all funding obligations must be made no later than September 30, 2026. All outstanding expenses must be paid, and the Final Fiscal Report must be submitted via IntelliGrants within thirty (30) days of September 30, 2026. Proof of payment for all expenses must be provided in the Final Fiscal Report. Any expenses that have not been paid within thirty (30) days of September 30, 2026, will not be reimbursed.
All program activities must be completed by the end of the award period. All grant-funded equipment must be purchased, installed, and operational for the enforcement or educational training by the end of the second quarter of the performance period.
The CPSTD grant provides funding to support Child Passenger Safety (CPS) projects that meet the following priority areas:
- Reduce injuries and fatalities through education and distribution of child restraint systems.
- Recruit and increase the number of Child Passenger Safety professionals throughout the state.
- Child Passenger Safety Technicians (CPST)
- Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructors (CPSTI)
- Child Passenger Safety Technicians Proxies (CPSTP)
- Provide Continuing Education Units (CEU) to retain the current Child Passenger Safety professionals statewide.
- Provide National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) CPST training curriculum.
- Provide NHTSA Car Seat Basics for Law Enforcement curriculum.
- Identify and target areas with higher than national birth rates and marriage rates.
CPSTD funds may not be used (directly or indirectly) for any of the following items:
- Real estate.
- Weapons, ammunition, body armor, and/or accessories for law enforcement.
- Fuel.
- First Class travel or travel agent costs.
- Advance payments.
- Calculation and reimbursement for mileage, per diem, and lodging cannot exceed state rates. Learn more.
Additionally, CPSTD funds may not be used for any purpose prohibited by federal statute or regulation. Federal law prohibits the use of federal funds for certain activities irrespective of the federal funding source or the specifics of the grant program. These prohibitions include but may not be limited to:
- Lobbying.
- Fundraising.
- State and local taxes.
- Entertainment.
- Fines and penalties.
- Home office workspace and related utilities.
- Honoraria.
- Passport charges.
- Tips.
- Food and/or beverages.
- Membership fees to organizations whose primary activity is lobbying.
- Land acquisition.
- Bonuses or commissions.
Matching or cost sharing means the portion of project costs not paid by federal funds.
Match sources must be directly related to traffic safety activities. Any activities that fall outside the scope of the grant cannot be used as match. If the expenditure is not allowable with Federal funds, it is not allowable with match funds.
Applicants must identify all sources of the non-federal portion of the total project costs (i.e., match funds), and applicants must explain how the match funds will be used in the budget narrative section of the application within IntelliGrants.
- Must be verifiable from the subrecipient’s records;
- Are not included as contributions for any other federal award;
- Are necessary and reasonable for the accomplishment of the project or program objectives;
- Are allowable under 2 C.F.R. 200.306;
- Are not paid by the federal government under another federal award, except where authorized by federal statute;
- Conform to all other provisions of 2 C.F.R. Part 200.
- Match sources for instructional time or personnel time can be personnel salary and/or mileage.
- Match sources for equipment must be a cash match.
Match can be calculated by using the Federal Share (award) divided by the percentage of Total Project Cost minus Federal Share.
EXAMPLE: With a match of 20%, and Federal share of 80%, a $250,000 Federal grant award match is as follows:
$250,000 divided by 80% = $312,500
$312,500 minus $250,000 = $62,500
The 20% local share is $62,500.
2 CFR Part 200 and NHTSA guidelines set forth monitoring requirements whereby the state must establish and carry out a process of assessing the progress of projects and programs that are funded, in whole or in part, by federal funds. Grant monitoring measures both financial and programmatic progress and allows the TSD to provide technical assistance, measure subrecipient compliance, and provide results-based feedback to subrecipients.
The TSD will monitor grant programs based on the award amount and/or risk assessment. The TSD grant program managers will conduct desk or on-site monitoring reviews of the project or program during the term of the grant period and for up to three (3) years after it expires or is otherwise terminated. All documentation related to the grant shall be provided to the state, upon request, at no cost. If the subrecipient fails to comply or cooperate with the state’s monitoring process, the state may consider such non-cooperation as a material breach of the grant agreement, and the grant may be terminated.
Delinquent, inaccurate, incomplete, and/or fraudulent program and fiscal reports will be considered a material breach of the grant agreement. The TSD’s remedies include, but are not limited to, identifying the subrecipient as high risk, de-obligating funding, termination of the grant, disqualification from future funding, and/or referral to the U.S. Office of Inspector General.
