123rd MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1897		LR 2634(04)
	An Act To Allow Blended Sentencing for Certain Juveniles
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "     "
	Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Potential future biennium cost increase - General Fund
Correctional and Judicial Impact Statements
	This legislation allows blended sentencing for certain juveniles convicted as adults and sentenced to imprisonment if the juvenile has not attained 16 years of age at the time of sentencing.  The fiscal impact of allowing sentencing placement to both juvenile (until age 18) and adult correctional facilities will depend on how often this type of sentence occurs and on what the sentence might have been had the current statutes continued unchanged.  It appears that the most likely use of the blended sentence would be to add time in an adult facility beyond what might have been a sentence served only in a juvenile facility.  An additional cost to the State would be incurred for the additional total time served.  However, in the last 5 years there were 60 bind-overs and none of them involved a person under 16 years of age.  Therefore, it is not expected that the number of future incarcerations would be significant.