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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Vaughn
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/22/07
HB 95
SHORT TITLE
Making an Appropriation to Pay Expenses for
Transferring Prisoners in Otero County
SB
ANALYST Propst
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$100.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Department of Finance and Administration
Responses Received From
Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 95 makes an Appropriation to Pay Expenses for Transferring Prisoners in Otero
County.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Note: major assumptions underlying fiscal impact should be documented.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
DFA reports that, housing and transporting prisoners represents an enormous cost to counties.
For the most part, counties are not reimbursed for these expenses. If a county does not have
significant own-source revenues, the effect of paying for prisoner expenses may result in the
county cutting back on other services to the public. This appropriation would provide $100
thousand to help Otero County meet the cost for transferring prisoners.