Honorable Pete Flores, Chair, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB456 by Middleton (Relating to the purchase or sale of human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.), As Introduced
The bill would increase the criminal penalty for the offense of the purchase or sale of human organs from a Class A misdemeanor to a state jail felony. The bill would furthermore require the revocation of a physician's license if the physician knowingly uses a human organ obtained from the offense.
Increasing the penalty for an existing offense may result in an increase in demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
In fiscal year 2024, there were no arrests, no juvenile referrals, no placements onto adult community supervision, no individuals admitted into an adult state correctional institution, and no individuals admitted into a juvenile state correctional institution for the offense of the purchase or sale of human organs.
It is assumed that any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.