OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
Legislative Office Building, Room 5200
Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200
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SB-1011
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF OPIOID ANTAGONISTS AND
EPINEPHRINE CARTRIDGE INJECTORS BY POLICE OFFICERS.
Primary Analyst: ME 4/6/21
Contributing Analyst(s): DC, DD, AN, MR, JS
Reviewer: PR
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact:
Agency Affected Fund-Effect FY 22 $ FY 23 $
Emergency Services and Public
Protection, Dept.; Legislative
Mgmt.; Department of Energy
and Environmental Protection
GF - Cost At least
320,000
See Below
Higher Education Constituent
Units
Various - Cost At least
50,000
See Below
Note: GF=General Fund; Various=Various
Municipal Impact:
Municipalities Effect FY 22 $ FY 23 $
Municipal Police Departments STATE
MANDATE
1
- Cost
See Below See Below
Explanation
The bill requires all law enforcement units to carry and receive
training on opioid antagonists (Narcan) and epinephrine (EpiPen's)
resulting in a cost to various agencies, the higher education constituent
units, and municipal police departments.
State agency and higher education law enforcement units already
1
State mandate is defined in Sec. 2-32b(2) of the Connecticut General Statutes, "state
mandate" means any state initiated constitutional, statutory or executive action that
requires a local government to establish, expand or modify its activities in such a
way as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues. 2021SB-01011-R000295-FN.DOCX Page 2 of 2
receive this training and carry Narcan but do not carry EpiPen's,
resulting in a cost in FY 22 of at least $320,000 for the Department of
Emergency Services and Public Protection, Legislative Management,
and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and at
least $50,000 aggregately for the higher education constituent units.
Funding is required to equip each officer with one adult and one
children’s EpiPen for a cost of approximately $300 per officer. The
ongoing cost will be dependent on how frequently these are used and
need to be replaced
2
.
The cost to municipalities would vary based on: 1) how many police
officers receive training on the use of Narcan and epinephrine, and 2)
how much Narcan and epinephrine police departments choose to keep
on hand. It is not known how many municipal police departments
already meet the bill’s requirements and, therefore, would incur no
fiscal impact. For context, it is estimated that supplying the
Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection with one
Narcan, one adult EpiPen and one children’s EpiPen would cost
approximately $338 per trooper.
The Out Years
The annualized ongoing fiscal impact identified above would
continue into the future subject to inflation and how frequently the
medications need to be replaced.
2
If unused, epinephrine expires in approximately 12-24 months.