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Toxicology Driving Under the Influence (DUI)/Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID) - 2025 Application Cycle

Opportunity number: 86363

Program owner: California Highway Patrol

Application timeline

  • Application deadline: February 23, 2025 5:00 pm

Key details

  • Funding amount: Estimated program-wide available funds were $11,000,000. The number and amounts of individual awards depended on submissions and the application process.
  • Match required: Not required
  • Opens: January 9, 2025
  • Deadline: February 23, 2025

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Summary: California reimbursement grants for eligible local governments, California counties, and crime laboratories to support toxicology testing, forensic evidence processing, and laboratory capabilities used in DUI and drug-impaired-driving enforcement and prosecution.

The California Highway Patrol offered Cannabis Tax Fund grants for toxicology work supporting enforcement and prosecution involving alcohol- and drug-impaired driving. Eligible projects included forensic alcohol or breath-alcohol analysis, controlled-substance or drug-chemistry analysis, forensic toxicology analysis, evidence-backlog reduction, faster sample testing, and laboratory equipment purchases or upgrades.

Applications were submitted and reviewed through the online Grant Management System. Funding was provided by reimbursement, and the award period was July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027.

Who is eligible?

Applicant types: Public agencies

Local governments identified by the source as California counties and/or crime laboratories. Applicants must be in California.

What can the funding be used for?

Personnel, travel, equipment, consultants or contracts, and other direct costs for qualifying toxicology projects. Examples include forensic alcohol or breath-alcohol analysis for DUI prosecution, controlled-substance or drug-chemistry analysis for DUID prosecution, eliminating forensic-evidence backlogs, reducing sample-testing turnaround times, and purchasing or upgrading laboratory equipment.

How to apply

Submit an application electronically through the online Grant Management System. Applications are reviewed and approved through that system, and award notifications are sent electronically.

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Program contact

[email protected]
1-916-843-4360

Official sources

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