121st Maine Legislature
		Office of Fiscal and Program Review
		LD 863
		An Act To Require State Reimbursement to Counties for Health Expenses Incurred For Prisoners in County Jails
		LR 1254(01)
		Fiscal Note for Original Bill
		Sponsor: Rep. Paradis of Frenchville
		Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
		Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
					Projections	Projections
			2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Net Cost (Savings)
	General Fund		$3,750,000	$5,000,000	$5,125,000	$5,253,125
Appropriations/Allocations
	General Fund		$3,750,000	$5,000,000	$5,125,000	$5,253,125
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	The projected annual costs to the General Fund to reimburse counties for inmate medical services are identified above.  These estimates are based on an average cost of $10.50 a day for medical services for an inmate in the county jail system.  These amounts do not include other extraordinary medical costs resulting from the hospitalization and care of inmates for life threatening illness.  Although there is an avenue for counties to pursue recovering medical costs from inmates, the actual cost recovered is insignificant and would have a minor impact on the projected reimbursement for medical services by the state to counties.