Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement
127 th General Assembly of Ohio
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LOCAL IMPACT
STATEMENT REQUIRED: |
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STATE FUND |
FY 2007* |
FY 2008 – FUTURE YEARS |
Department of Aging |
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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 2007 is July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007.
* For the purposes of this fiscal analysis, it is assumed
that any of the bill's state fiscal effects would occur sometime after FY 2007.
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Department of Aging. Based on a preliminary
discussion between the Department and LSC fiscal staff, 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.
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT |
FY 2007 |
FY 2008 |
FUTURE YEARS |
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Counties |
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Revenues |
- 0 - |
- 0 - |
- 0 - |
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Expenditures |
Negligible community
notification cost |
Negligible community
notification cost |
Negligible community
notification cost |
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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 writing¾the number of long-term care
facilities, their location relative to the number of offenders subject to
community notification, and the cost per written notice¾LSC 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 Aging to compile, maintain, and update twice a year 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.
Sex and child-victim offenders
Current law
Under
Ohio's Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) Law, with a limited
exception for a few exempt offenses, an offender convicted of a sexually
oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense, and a juvenile adjudicated
for committing such an offense whom a juvenile court subjects to the SORN law,
must register, provide notice of any change in, and periodically verify the
person's residence address with the sheriff of the county where the person
resides. The SORN law imposes similar
duties on an offender convicted of such an offense, with regard to the person's
school and employment addresses. As of
August 16, 2006, there were 15,274 adult and 590 juvenile sex offender
registrants in Ohio.
An offender or delinquent
child with a duty to register must provide prior notice to the sheriff of an
intent to reside in the sheriff's county if the person is a sexual or
child-victim predator, a habitual sex or child-victim offender subjected to
community notification, or an offender convicted of an aggravated sexually
oriented offense. A county sheriff must
provide victim and community notification of the registered address of an
offender or delinquent child in any category described in the preceding
sentence. Of the previously noted
15,864 adult and juvenile sex offender registrants, 2,544 were subject to
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 all of these are combined with the additional facilities as
specified by the bill, 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 Aging
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 a
preliminary discussion between the Department and LSC fiscal staff, 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 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 cost of each
notification letter is approximately 47 cents.
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 writing¾the number of long-term care
facilities, their location relative to the number of offenders subject to
community notification, and the cost per written notice¾LSC 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: Joseph Rogers, Senior Budget Analyst
Jamie Doskocil, Senior Budget Analyst
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