Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

State of Alaska
                                                            Fiscal Note
                                                                                                Bill Version:                   HB 50
 2019 Legislative Session
                                                                                                Fiscal Note Number:             6
                                                                                                (H) Publish Date:               2/20/2019
 Identifier:        LL0030-2-DOC-IDO-01-22-19                                     Department:       Department of Corrections
 Title:             ARREST;RELEASE;SENTENCING;PROBATION                           Appropriation: Population Management
 Sponsor:           RLS BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR                                Allocation:       Institution Director's Office
 Requester: (H) STA                                                               OMB Component Number:               1381
 Expenditures/Revenues
 Note: Amounts do not include inflation unless otherwise noted below.                                                                 (Thousands of Dollars)
                                                 Included in
                                    FY2020       Governor's
                                Appropriation      FY2020                                              Out-Year Cost Estimates
                                  Requested       Request
 OPERATING EXPENDITURES               FY 2020        FY 2020       FY 2021                        FY 2022            FY 2023          FY 2024         FY 2025
 Personal Services                          ***                         ***                            ***                ***              ***             ***
 Travel
 Services
 Commodities
 Capital Outlay
 Grants & Benefits
 Miscellaneous
 Total Operating                            ***           0.0           ***                             ***               ***              ***               ***
 Fund Source (Operating Only)
 None
 Total                                             ***            0.0                 ***               ***               ***              ***               ***
 Positions
 Full-time
 Part-time
 Temporary
 Change in Revenues
 None
 Total                                            0.0             0.0                 0.0               0.0               0.0              0.0              0.0
 Estimated SUPPLEMENTAL (FY2019) cost:                                   0.0                (separate supplemental appropriation required)
 Estimated CAPITAL (FY2020) cost:                                        0.0                (separate capital appropriation required)
 Does the bill create or modify a new fund or account?       No
 (Supplemental/Capital/New Fund - discuss reasons and fund source(s) in analysis section)
 ASSOCIATED REGULATIONS
 Does the bill direct, or will the bill result in, regulation changes adopted by your agency?                   No
 If yes, by what date are the regulations to be adopted, amended or repealed?
 Why this fiscal note differs from previous version/comments:
 Not applicable, initial version.
 Prepared By:              Teri West, Deputy Director                                                                  Phone:       (907)465-3311
 Division:                 Administration and Support                                                                  Date:        01/22/2019 04:45 PM
 Approved By:              Sylvan Robb, Admin Services Director for Corrections                                        Date:        01/22/19
 Agency:                   Office of Management and Budget
Printed 2/20/2019                                                       Page 1 of 2                                                          Control Code: ToLOt
                                                                                                                  HB 50 - Fiscal Note 6
                                                 FISCAL NOTE ANALYSIS
STATE OF ALASKA                                                                 BILL NO. LL 0030-2
2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Analysis
   Sections 1-3 of the bill extends the period of time before a person must be taken before a judge or magistrate from 24 to
   48 hours. The department does not have data that explicitly documents when a defendant has an appearance before a
   judge or magistrate. However, doubling the length of time allowed before this hearing is required to occur is likely to
   result in increasing the daily average inmate count and thus a modest increased cost for incarceration.
   Sections 11-12 of the bill eliminate credit granted against a sentence of imprisonment for time spent on electronic
   monitoring (EM). The department assumes that all credit previous granted will now be served in a facility. In CY2018 182
   individuals who were on electronic monitoring immediately went to prison after EM. Their average length of time on EM
   was 81.6 days for a total of 14,852 days of EM for which this bill no longer gives credit. The department projects increased
   costs which it continues to work to quantify.
   Section 18 establishes the default appearance mode for all hearings except trials and sentencing hearings to be via
   television system when available. The department currently has videoconferencing equipment in all of its facilities.
   Section 19 allows defense attorneys to agree to a continuance. The department has no data which allows it project how
   often this option may be implemented. A continuance for a defendant in custody will increase incarceration costs by
   $168.74 per day for each addition day of incarceration.
   Elimination of pretrial results in the department's projected inmate count to increase by 205 inmates per day. The
   department projects increased costs which it continues to work to quantify.
(Revised 11/19/18 OMB/LFD)                                                                                         Page 2 of 2
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Statutes affected: 
HB0050A, AM HB 50, introduced 02/20/2019: 12.25.150, 12.30.006, 12.30.011, 12.30.021, 47.38.020, 12.30.016, 28.35.030, 28.35.032, 12.55.027, 12.70.130, 12.70.120, 33.05.010, 33.05.020, 33.05.040, 33.05.030, 12.55.090, 11.56.730, 11.56.757, 33.16.190, 44.19.645, 33.16.270, 33.07.010, 33.07.020, 33.07.030, 33.07.040, 33.07.090, 33.05.045