Expanding the type of credit that may be credited toward a sentence may result in reduced demands upon state correctional resources due to a possible decrease in the number of individuals placed and the amount of time spent under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement. The fiscal implications of the bill cannot be determined due to the lack of statewide data which include all relevant jail or prison confinements a defendant may have served for another case, as well as the duration of such confinements, which would be eligible for credit under the provisions of the bill.

The bill would require the judge of the court in which a defendant is convicted to give the defendant credit towards the defendant's sentence for the time the defendant has spent confined in jail or prison for another case if that confinement occurred after the commission of the offense for which the defendant is convicted and before the date of the defendant's sentencing. The impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources cannot be determined.