OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
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sSB-1059
AN ACT CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF THE CORRECTION
OMBUDS, THE USE OF ISOLATED CONFINEMENT, SECLUSION
AND RESTRAINTS, SOCIAL CONTACTS FOR INCARCERATED
PERSONS AND TRAINING AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION
BENEFITS FOR CORRECTION OFFICERS.
AMENDMENT
LCO No.: 9831
File Copy No.: 616
Senate Calendar No.: 348
Primary Analyst: ME 6/3/21
Contributing Analyst(s): (FN)
OFA Fiscal Note
See Fiscal Note Details
The amendment makes various changes resulting in the elimination
of the revenue loss in the underlying bill and a reduction to the cost
and potential cost to the Department of Correction (DOC), described
below.
The amendment removes the requirement that each inmate
receives two free sixty-minute phone calls per week which
removes the $7.8 million revenue loss to the Department of
Emergency Services and Public Protection, Judicial Department,
and the DOC. This also reduces the annual cost to the DOC by
$5.7 million.
The amendment removes the requirement that the DOC
provides free writing and postage supplies to inmates which
reduces the cost to DOC in the underlying bill by $400,000 per
year.
The amendment removes the requirement that physician and
therapist evaluations occur before an inmate is placed in 2021SB-01059-R00LCO09831-FNA.DOCX Page 2 of 2
isolation and allows examinations to be conducted within 24
hours which reduces the potential cost to the DOC in the
underlying bill. Physicians and therapists typically work first-
shift, Monday-Friday at DOC facilities and are on-call all other
times.
The amendment also makes various technical changes which
result in no fiscal impact to the state.
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.