Assisted suicide ban.

11LSO-0414.L2

FISCAL NOTE

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

Source of Expenditure Increase:

The creation of a new criminal offense punishable by probation or incarceration creates a potential cost for that supervision or incarceration.  Each year of incarceration, per inmate, will cost the State, in current dollars, approximately $45,725 for the cost of incarceration, including medical costs.  The cost for community supervision of an offender is approximately $2,000 per year.

Assumptions:

Though there are no current measures that would allow for an accurate prediction of the number of individuals sentenced pursuant to the proposed legislation, it is assumed that the actual number of individuals sentenced would be low.

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

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

Prepared by:   Joann Odendahl, Supreme Court    Phone: 777-7581