Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement
127 th General Assembly of Ohio
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LOCAL IMPACT
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STATE FUND |
FY 2008* |
FY 2009 – FUTURE YEARS |
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Department of Health |
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Revenues |
- 0 - |
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Expenditures |
- 0 - |
No readily discernible
annual cost to maintain and provide long-term care facility list |
Note: The state
fiscal year is July 1 through June 30.
For example, FY 2008 is July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008.
* For the purposes of this fiscal analysis, it is assumed
that any of the bill's state fiscal effects would occur sometime after FY 2008.
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Department of Health. Based on testimony presented
by the Department before the House Criminal Justice Committee, it appears the
required duty to compile, maintain, and provide as needed a list of long-term
care facilities could be performed by departmental personnel without incurring
significant additional expenses, and even more likely that this task can easily
be absorbed within the normal daily cost of doing business.
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LOCAL
GOVERNMENT |
FY 2008 – FUTURE YEARS |
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Counties |
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Revenues |
- 0 - |
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Expenditures |
Negligible annual community notification cost
incurred by sheriff |
Note: For most local governments, the fiscal year is the calendar year. The school district fiscal year is July 1 through June 30.
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County sheriffs. Based on the information at
hand as of this writing – the number of long-term care facilities, their
location relative to the number of offenders subject to community notification,
and the cost per written notice – LSC fiscal staff estimates that the
additional community notification costs that might be incurred by any given
county sheriff will be negligible. For
the purposes of this fiscal analysis, negligible means an estimated cost of
less than $1,000 annually.
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Fiscally notable provisions
For the purposes of this fiscal analysis, the bill
most notably:
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Requires
the county sheriff to provide written notice to a long-term care facility when
certain sex offenders or child-victim offenders indicate an intent to reside or
registers an address within the facility's specified geographical notification
area.
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Requires
the Department of Health to compile, maintain, and update twice a year (January
and July) a list of long-term care facilities that contains certain
information, and to provide the list, upon request, to the county sheriff who
is required to provide community notification.
Long-term care facilities
According to data from the
Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, in 2005, the number of Ohio
long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, residential care, and adult
care facilities, totaled nearly 2,200.
When these are combined with the additional facilities as specified by
the bill,[1]
LSC fiscal staff estimates the total number of long-term care facilities
potentially affected by the bill to be somewhere between 2,200 and 2,500.
State fiscal effects
The lone state fiscal effect
associated with the bill is the requirement that the Department of Health
compile, update, and maintain a list of all long-term care facilities
containing certain information, and that the information be provided to a
county sheriff upon request. Based on
testimony presented by the Department before the House Criminal Justice
Committee, it appears that this required duty could be performed by
departmental personnel without incurring significant additional expenses, and
even more likely that this task can easily be absorbed within the normal daily
cost of doing business.
Local fiscal effects
According to the Buckeye
State Sheriffs' Association, there is already a process in operation under the
current Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) Law for determining
the specific facilities and residences that must be notified in writing of either
the presence of certain registered offenders or of the intention of those
offenders to locate in a particular geographical area.
The bill adds
"long-term care facility" to the list of entities and persons that
are to be provided a written notice, which means that a county sheriff may send
out more written notices than might otherwise have been the case under current
law.
Based on the information at
hand as of this writing – the number of long-term care facilities, their
location relative to the number of offenders subject to community notification,
and the cost per written notice – LSC fiscal staff estimates that the
additional community notification costs that might be incurred by any given
county sheriff will be negligible. For
the purposes of this fiscal analysis, negligible means an estimated cost of
less than $1,000 annually.
LSC fiscal staff: Jamie
Doskocil, Senior Budget Analyst
Joseph Rogers, Senior Budget
Analyst
[1] These facilities include homes for the aging, county or district homes, adult foster homes, and facilities approved by the Veterans Administration for the placement and care of veterans.