This fiscal note contains 10 pages. Officials from the Office of the Attorney General 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 proposed legislation would eliminate civil trial de novo, except for small claims, and require that any appeal be on the record. We are not sure how many, but a substantial proportion of these cases are already sound recorded. There were about 3,455 municipal certifications and trial de novo cases. There will be a need to sound record more cases to preserve the record. However, there will be a reduction in the trials de novo.