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Summary of California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• Net state prison, parole, and mental health program costs of several tens of millions of dollars initially, growing to a couple hundred million dollars annually within ten years
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• Potential one-time state mental hospital and prison capital outlay costs eventually reaching several hundred million dollars.

• Net state and local costs for court and jail operations are unknown.

The LAO is known to be conservative in their analyses

250 million Prison and mental hospital costs

800 million over the next 10 years for state prison, parole, and mental health program costs

200 million for state and local costs for court and jail operations

This totals $1.25 Billion