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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Espinosa

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/31/07

2/13/07 HB 659

SHORT TITLE Chaves Detention Center Management System

SB

ANALYST Propst

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$200.0

Non-recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 659 makes an appropriation of $200.0 from the General Fund to the Local

Government Division of the Department of Finance and Administration to purchase and install a

jail management system for the Chaves County Detention Center.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $200.0 contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense to the General

Fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to

the General Fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

DFA reports that the jail management system is intended to improve financial efficiencies by

redirecting costs associated with the current mechanical process of communication, planning and

identification of criminal activity in Chaves County and related State and federal law

enforcement agencies.

House Bill 659 – Page

2

The purchase of the jail management system should improve the communication network with

local law enforcement jurisdictions, courts and District Attorney in Chaves County. The system

provides an efficient database and planning tool to law enforcement officials and county

commissioners. It also allows for inter-phase opportunities with the existing Computer Aided

Dispatching System, Judicial Data Exchange and AFIS (Bio-Metric identification) systems in the

State used to create greater law enforcement efficiencies related to criminal identification in and

outside of the county.

DFA further notes that the same person-hour costs now spent to maintain the current method of

communication, data management, and planning could potentially be redeployed toward more

efficient and useful law enforcement purposes in Chaves County and the State.

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