OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
Legislative Office Building, Room 5200
Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200
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sSB-925
AN ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPORT, SALE AND POSSESSION OF
AFRICAN ELEPHANTS, LIONS, LEOPARDS, BLACK
RHINOCEROS, WHITE RHINOCEROS AND GIRAFFES.
As Amended by Senate "B" (LCO 8888)
Senate Calendar No.: 164
Primary Analyst: MR 5/19/21
Contributing Analyst(s):
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact:
Agency Affected Fund-Effect FY 22 $ FY 23 $
Correction, Dept.; Judicial Dept.
(Probation)
GF - Potential
Cost
See Below See Below
Resources of the General Fund GF - Potential
Revenue Gain
See Below See Below
Note: GF=General Fund
Municipal Impact: None
Explanation
The bill bans importing, possessing, selling, offering for sale, or
transporting certain specimens of African animals and creates a
misdemeanor for violating the ban, and a felony for subsequent
offenses. Violations of this provision may result in a potential cost for
incarceration or probation and a potential revenue gain from fines
assessed. On average, the marginal cost to the state for incarcerating an
offender for the year is $2,200
1
while the average marginal cost for
supervision in the community is less than $700
2
each year.
1
Inmate marginal cost is based on increased consumables (e.g. food, clothing, water, sewage, living
supplies, etc.) This does not include a change in staffing costs or utility expenses because these would
only be realized if a unit or facility opened.
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Senate "A" replaces the underlying bill which results in the impact
described above.
The Out Years
The annualized ongoing impact described above would continue
into the future subject to the number of violations that occur.
The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly,
solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the
General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety
of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is
consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any
specific department.
2 Probation marginal cost is based on services provided by private providers and only includes costs that increase with
each additional participant. This does not include a cost for additional supervision by a probation officer unless a new
offense is anticipated to result in enough additional offenders to require additional probation officers.