Battery against a family member.

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FISCAL NOTE

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

Source of Expenditure Increase:

To the degree the conditions requisite for existing criminal offenses are modified by the proposed legislation (i.e., the removal of timeframes for prior convictions), there may be cost associated with increased numbers of offenders convicted or increased terms of incarceration. Each year of incarceration, per inmate, will cost the State, in current dollars, approximately $47,900 for the cost of incarceration, including medical costs.  The cost for community supervision of an offender is approximately $2,000 per year.

Assumptions:

There are no current measures that would allow for an accurate prediction of the number of individuals impacted pursuant to the proposed legislation.  Conviction and supervision data for the past four years reveals the following trends: There are currently two offenders on misdemeanant probation for violation of W.S. 6-2-501(f)(i). There are currently ten offenders on felony probation for violation of W.S. 6-2-501(f)(ii).  There are currently fifty-nine inmates incarcerated for violation of W.S. 6-2-501(f)(ii), averaging about fifteen convictions per year with an average maximum sentence of fifty months.

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