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FISCAL NOTE

The fiscal impact is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases. 

Source of Expenditure Increase:

The creation of new misdemeanant and felony offenses creates a new potential cost for probation or incarceration as there are costs for supervision or incarceration.  Each year of incarceration, per inmate, will cost the State, in current dollars, approximately $32,600 for the cost of incarceration and approximately $10,845 for medical costs.  The cost for traditional supervision of a probationer is approximately $1,420 per year, while the cost of supervision for a probationer under the intensive supervision program is approximately $7,520 per year.

Assumptions:

There are no current measures that would allow for an accurate prediction of the number of individuals sentenced pursuant to the proposed legislation.

Prepared by:   Brian Farmer, Dept. of Corrections    Phone:   777-5983

The fiscal impact to the judicial system is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases.

Prepared by:   Holly Hansen, Supreme Court Phone:   777-7678