This fiscal note contains 5 pages. Officials from the Office of the Attorney General , in response to a similar proposal, assume the fiscal impact to their agency is unknown, and they note that several sections of the proposal will have unknown fiscal impact on the agency and the state.
Oversight assumes the fiscal impact is unknown.
The Division will establish and maintain a Tort Victims' Compensation Unit to receive, process and make awards for uncompensated tort victims. The Division will also establish and maintain a procedure to adjudicate these claims. The impact of this program is very difficult to assess. In FY 98, the Office of the State Courts Administrator reports that 20,282 tort cases were disposed of. Over the last three fiscal years the average number of tort cases disposed of is 19,264 cases.