BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    

      Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary

                                SB 1143 (Mountjoy)

Amended: 5/4/95                     Policy Vote:  
Crim Pro 5-0

Consultant:  Happy Chastain         Hearing Date:  
5/15/95
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BILL SUMMARY: SB 1143 requires inmates convicted of  
certain sexually violent offenses to be evaluated  
for a potential indeterminate sentence.  This  
process would require an evaluation by medical and  
psychiatric professionals, upon determination that  
the inmate may engage in future acts of sexual  
violence, a petition for indeterminate sentencing  
is then filed by the District Attorney in the  
county of conviction.  The inmate is entitled to a  
trial by jury and upon a finding that the inmate is  
a sexually violent predator the inmate would be  
confined in a state prison facility under the  
direction of the Department of Mental health until  
that inmate serves his complete term of commitment  
or his personality disorder has changed to the  
point that he is no longer likely to commit an act  
of sexual violence.

                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
 
Major Provisions          1995-96     1996-97   1997-98  Fund

Increased Prison         Indeterminable range from tens of millionsGeneral
  Population  to hundreds of millions  (see ASSUMPTION below)
                                    

STAFF COMMENTS:  

This bill meets the criteria to be placed on the  
Suspense file.

This bill is similar to SB 41X (Presley, 1994)  
which died in the Assembly Public Safety Committee.

ASSUMPTION:  As of 1/1/94 CDC had 8,295 inmates  
falling under the provisions of this bill and  









subject to indeterminate sentencing as provided.   
It is unknown how many inmates would be deemed a  
sexually violent predator, however, staff is  
assuming a fairly high number would be convicted.   
This bill requires the inmate to fall under the  
Department of Mental Healthos jurisdiction but be  
housed at a state prison medical facility.  Costs  
for such inmates can run as high as $100,000  
annually due to increased supervision and  
treatment.