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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Kevin Murray, Chairman

                                           1182 (Battin)
          
          Hearing Date:  5/15/06          Amended: 5/2/06
          Consultant: Nora Lynn           Policy Vote: Public Safety 4-0
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          BILL SUMMARY:   

          SB 1182 adds persons convicted of felony child pornography  
          crimes to those required to post offender information on the  
          Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Megan's Law website.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2006-07      2007-08      2008-09     Fund
           
          DOJ: Megan's Law additions        <$150                 General
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          STAFF COMMENTS: 
          
          Existing law requires DOJ to post on its Megan's Law website the  
          ZIP Code information of sex offender registrants for the  
          following offenses: assault with intent to commit a sex crime;  
          felony sex battery; rape of an unconscious, disabled or  
          intoxicated victim; felony enticement of a child under 18 for  
          prostitution; felony inducement of a sex crime by fraud or fear;  
          procurement of a child under 16 for a lewd act; abduction of a  
          child under 18 for prostitution; sodomy of an unconscious,  
          disabled or intoxicated victim; sodomy of a child under 16 by a  
          person over 21; oral copulation of an unconscious, disabled or  
          intoxicated victim; oral copulation of a child under 16 by a  
          person over 21; sexual penetration of an unconscious, disabled  
          or intoxicated victim; sexual penetration of a child under 16 by  
          a person over 21; and child annoyance. SB 1182 includes  
          specified felony child pornography offenses to this list.

          There are an estimated 1,000 sex offenders with the specified  
          felony child pornography offenses included in DOJ's Violent  
          Crime Information Network (VCIN) database who are not otherwise  
          on the Megan's Law website for other convictions. Many of the  










          pornography offenses are not noted in VCIN as felony or  
          misdemeanor, so DOJ staff will need to review manually the  
          criminal history records to determine whether the offense was a  
          felony or misdemeanor. Since SB 1182 excludes persons who submit  
          a probation report indicating the person depicted in the  
          pornography was at least 16 years old, DOJ will also need to  
          develop a tracking system for exclusions, develop and review  
          applications, and respond to inquiries.

          Most of this work is one-time, and costs are estimated at less  
          than $150,000.