OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
Legislative Office Building, Room 5200
Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200
http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa
SB-119
AN ACT EXEMPTING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANIES AND
DEPARTMENTS AND VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICES AND
COMPANIES FROM THE FEE FOR A CRIMINAL HISTORY
RECORDS CHECK.
Primary Analyst: ME 4/5/21
Contributing Analyst(s): RDP
Reviewer: PR
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact:
Agency Affected Fund-Effect FY 22 $ FY 23 $
Emergency Services and Public
Protection, Dept.
Applicant
Fingerprint Card
Submission
Account -
Potential Revenue
Loss
See Below See Below
Resources of the General Fund GF - Potential
Revenue Loss
See Below See Below
Note: GF=General Fund
Municipal Impact:
Municipalities Effect FY 22 $ FY 23 $
Various Municipalities Potential
Savings
See Below See Below
Explanation
The bill exempts volunteer fire departments and volunteer
ambulance services from the fees for criminal history records checks
resulting in a potential revenue loss to the General Fund and the
Applicant Fingerprint Card Submission Account and potential savings
to municipalities.
To the extent that volunteer fire departments and volunteer
ambulance services conduct these background checks results in a 2021SB-00119-R000274-FN.DOCX Page 2 of 2
potential revenue loss to the General Fund and the Applicant
Fingerprint Card Submission Account
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. There are approximately 500
new volunteer fire fighters per year who may be required to pass some
or all these background checks (the number of new volunteer
ambulance services workers is unknown). Below is a list of the
following fees these volunteers will be exempt from under the bill:
Name search - $36
Fingerprint search - $75
Personal record search - $75
Letters of good conduct search - $75
Bar association search - $75
Fingerprinting - $15
Criminal history record search - $75
The bill also results in potential savings to municipalities to the
extent they're currently paying these fees for volunteer firefighters and
ambulance services workers.
The Out Years
The annualized ongoing fiscal impact identified above would
continue into the future subject to the number of new volunteer
firefighters and ambulance services workers and background checks
conducted.
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Fingerprinting fees are deposited into this account and are used for IT support and
maintenance for the fingerprinting systems.