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

SPONSOR

Rainaldi

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/26/07

HB

SHORT TITLE

11

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District Pretrial Services Program

SB

421

ANALYST

C.Sanchez

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$0.0

$197.8

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 421 appropriates $197,800 from the general fund to the eleventh judicial district

court for three full-time employees and operating expenses for a pre-trial services program. Any

unexpended or encumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to the general

fund.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

All the funds are recurring.

This bill will increase the 11

th

Judicial District’s Budget by 3 percent.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Pre-Trial Services balances releasing offenders after arrest against potential danger to the

community and possible failure to appear. This program works closely with the court, and

reduces bed days for arrested pre-trial felons.

Senate Bill 421 – Page

2

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

The courts are participating in performance based budgeting. This bill may have an impact on

the measures of the courts in the following areas:

S

Cases disposes as a percent of cases filed

S

Percent change in case filings by case type

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL

Pre-Trial Services has been operation in San Juan County since 1998, and has been funded by

the county. Due to budget constraints, future funding of this program by San Juan County is at

risk. This bill would transfer the program from county to state funding.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

Would similar results be accomplished with a smaller general fund appropriation.

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