DUI-penalties.

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FISCAL NOTE

There is an indeterminable fiscal impact on the state corrections system.

 

The creation of a new criminal offense punishable by probation or incarceration or the extension of criminal penalties of an existing criminal offense creates potential for increased cost for that supervision or incarceration.  Each year of incarceration per inmate will cost the State approximately $47,900.00, in current dollars, including medical costs.  The cost for community supervision of an offender is approximately $2,000.00 per year.

 

It is unknown if current sentencing practices will continue or to what degree sentences may be extended pursuant to the proposed amended statute.  However, there were 28 individuals sentenced under this statute in 2011 resulting in incarceration in a Wyoming penal institution; 34 sentenced in 2010; 27 sentenced in 2009; 4 sentenced in 2008; and 4 sentenced in 2007.

 

There is expected to be no fiscal impact at the state level for the Office of the Wyoming Attorney General or the courts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prepared by:  Michael Swank, LSO           Phone:  777-7881

(Information provided by Laura Gorny, Office of the Wyoming Attorney General, phone 777-7840; Brian Farmer, Wyoming Department of Corrections, phone 777-5983; and Joann Odendahl, Wyoming Supreme Court, phone 777-7581)