FISCAL NOTE
Date Requested: February 12, 2025
Time Requested: 08:48 PM |
| Agency: |
Corrections & Rehabilitation, Division of |
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| CBD Number: |
Version: |
Bill Number: |
Resolution Number: |
| 1858 |
Introduced |
HB2194 |
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| CBD Subject: |
Crime |
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FUND(S):
West Virginia DCR
Sources of Revenue:
General Fund
Legislation creates:
Increases Existing Expenses
Fiscal Note Summary
Effect this measure will have on costs and revenues of state government.
It is impossible to give an exact fiscal impact as this is a new law. A determinate sentence of not less than 15 years would cost the agency $531,781 for full term. Our annual report for 2024 reports a daily cost of $97.13 per day. The Bill does not reflect a maximum discretionary sentence and I assume it could be hundreds of years and essentially a life sentence. That is a huge variable and costs would determined of the age of the offender at the time of sentencing. This financial impact cannot not be determined with the information I have.
Inmates would would still still be parole eligible is some cases. Parole eligibility is determined a 1/4 of time served of a determinate sentence.
Fiscal Note Detail
| Effect of Proposal |
Fiscal Year |
2025
Increase/Decrease
(use"-") |
2026
Increase/Decrease
(use"-") |
Fiscal Year
(Upon Full
Implementation) |
| 1. Estmated Total Cost |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Personal Services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Current Expenses |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Repairs and Alterations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Assets |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Other |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 2. Estimated Total Revenues |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Explanation of above estimates (including long-range effect):
Please explain increases and decreases in personal services, current expenses, repairs and alterations, assets, other costs and revenues, including assumptions and data sources and delineation between start-up and ongoing costs. Please also include a long-range schedule of costs and revenues if fiscal impact is expected to vary in future years.
Memorandum
It is impossible to give an exact fiscal impact as this is an introduction of a new law. A determinate sentence of not less than 15 years would cost the agency $531,781 for full term. Our annual report for 2024 reports a daily cost of $97.13 per day.
This is a new Offense and there is currently no one incarcerated for the Offense of Torture to gauge how many persons are subject to be sentenced under these guidelines.
Person submitting Fiscal Note: Patrick Mirandy
Email Address: patrick.a.mirandy@wv.gov