SB 1314 - HB 1328
FISCAL NOTE
Fiscal Review Committee
Tennessee General Assembly
March 1, 2025
Fiscal Analyst: Natalie Dusek | Email: natalie.dusek@capitol.tn.gov | Phone: 615-741-2564
SB 1314 - HB 1328
SUMMARY OF BILL: Makes permanent an existing pilot program for a criminal
proceedings notification system.
FISCAL IMPACT:
STATE GOVERNMENT
EXPENDITURES General Fund
FY25-26 & Subsequent Years $811,000
OTHER FISCAL IMPACT
The Governor’s FY25-26 proposed budget recognizes a dedicated recurring appropriation of
$811,000 for this program on page B-18.
Assumptions:
• Tennessee Code Annotated § 40-38-507, and Public Chapter 1140 of 2022, required the
Tennessee Sheriffs Association (TSA) to establish a criminal proceedings notification
system as a three-year pilot program for the purpose of providing timely information about
each stage of the criminal justice system to interested parties. The information is required to
be available 24 hours per day over the telephone, the internet, or by email. Any interested
party may register with the TSA to be automatically notified at least 24 hours before a
hearing in the matter for which the person is registered, and no more than 24 hours after a
hearing was conducted.
• The proposed legislation removes the July 1, 2025, termination date for the pilot program
to establish a permanent criminal proceedings notification system, otherwise known as the
Victim Information Notification System (VINE).
• Since its inception, funding for the program in the amount of $811,500 has been
appropriated by the General Assembly to the Office of Criminal Justice Programs (OCJP)
within the Department of Finance and Administration. The full amount is then distributed
to the TSA by OCJP as an annual grant.
• Based on information provided by OCJP, expenditures by the TSA for the program have
been as follows:
o FY22-23: $811,500 ($760,980 vendor + $50,520 TSA administrative);
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o FY23-24: $713,693 ($685,628 vendor + $28,065 TSA administrative);
o Expenditures for FY24-25 are not yet available.
• The precise amount of expenditures that will be required in future years to sustain the
program is not known.
• The TSA estimates that $811,000 annually (the approximate amount currently received each
year) will be sufficient to sustain the program indefinitely. Because the TSA expended this
total amount the first year of the pilot, it is reasonably assumed that the TSA could require
this full amount in future years, and that such an amount will be sufficient.
• It is therefore assumed that the proposed legislation will increase state expenditures to the
General Fund by $811,000 in FY25-26 and subsequent years. It is further assumed that this
money will continue to be appropriated to the OCJP, which will in turn, distribute the
funds to the TSA.
• The Governor’s FY25-26 proposed budget recognizes a dedicated recurring appropriation
for this program of $811,000 on page B-18.
CERTIFICATION:
The information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
Bojan Savic, Executive Director