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TFred wrote:
TFred wrote:
The Chairman also referred to this 2009 Budget Amendment:Repeater wrote:The very strong impression I got from Chairman Albo during that first meeting on Monday was that he was acting on firm direction, and that decisions for exceptions would have to go through him.TFred wrote:Miller's bill from last Session, HB 2136, in fact had a fiscal impact statement.Armed wrote:See my post on this very subject here.I would think the financial impact alone would make it unlikely this bill will pass. When you start arresting people and taking them to jail - now we're talking tax dollars. Given our current state of financial affairs, I think we're much better off to write the summons and send them on their way.
Does anyone know how to find the financial impact statement for a bill? In the CoJ committee meeting, they spoke as if this was something worked up for every bill.
This bill has been to CoJ, and already assigned to a sub-committee, so it would appear that it passed Chairman Albo's criteria for no or low financial impact.
Seems that would be worth a question to the chairman.
TFred
Curiously, his bill for this Session does not. Neither does Senator Reynolds. That seems incorrect.
These bills would certainly affect local government expenditures. That would implicate this code section, § 30-19.03: Estimates to be prepared for legislation affecting local government expenditures and revenues.
These bills would also swell the local jail populations, at least in some localities. That would implicate this code section, § 30-19.1:4: Increase in terms of imprisonment or commitment; fiscal impact statements; appropriations for operating costs.
Could Speaker Howell be playing politics?
TFred
A. For any fiscal impact statement prepared by the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission pursuant to § 30-19.1:4, Code of Virginia, for which the commission does not have sufficient information to project the impact, the commission shall assign a minimum fiscal impact of $50,000 to the bill and this amount shall be printed on the face of each such bill, but shall not be codified. The provisions of § 30-19.1:4, paragraph H. shall be applicable to any such bill.
What this means if that, even if they cannot decide what the specific cost would be for the Miller bill, for fiscal impact purposes, it would cost at least $50,000.