Commonwealth of Kentucky s31

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY STATE FISCAL NOTE STATEMENT

GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION 1998 REGULAR SESSION 1996-97 INTERIM

MEASURE

(X) 98 BR No. 1830 X Senate Bill No. 249

() Resolution No. X Amendment No. SFA # 4 (982168)

SUBJECT/TITLE AN ACT relating to the definition of person.

SPONSOR Senator Gex Williams

NOTE SUMMARY Fiscal Analysis: X Impact No Impact X Indeterminable Impact Level(s) of Impact: X State Local Federal

Budget Unit(s) Impact

Fund(s) Impact: X General Road X Federal Restricted Agency (Type) (Other)

FISCAL SUMMARY ______Future Annual Fiscal Estimates 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 Rate of Change Revenues (+/-) Indeterminable Indeterminable Indeterminable Expenditures (+/-) Indeterminable Indeterminable Indeterminable Net Effect Indeterminable Indeterminable Indeterminable ______MEASURE'S PURPOSE: To provide three new definitions under KRS 446.010 for human being, individual, and natural person.

PROVISION/MECHANICS: SB 249, floor amendment 4 amends KRS 446.010, relating to definitions for the Kentucky Revised Statutes, as follows: human being", when used in a definition of a "person", mean any member of the species Homo Sapiens from conception until death; "individual" or "individual person", when used in a definition of a "person" means any member of the species Homo Sapiens from conception until death; and "natural person" means a human being.

FISCAL EXPLANATION: Changing the legal definition of "person" in KRS 446.010 provides new definitions for applications to all statute laws in the Commonwealth, unless the context requires otherwise. The fiscal impact of defining "human being", "individual", "individual person", and "natural person" is indeterminable. The fiscal impacts pertaining to the primary measure, SB 249, would apply to SFA # 4 definitions. It is unclear whether the new definition of "individual" has ramifications in the context of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

DATA SOURCE(S) Norman Lawson, Pam Lester, LRC Staff Economists, Patrice Carroll; Rich Ornstein, Michelle Slone, Nyra Shield, Stephanie Roberts, Joe Pinczewski-Lee, and Jenny Urie, staff of the Legislative Research Commission; Kentucky Revised Statutes.

NOTE NO. PREPARER Nancy Rose Osborne REVIEW DATE 3/5/98 LRC 98-BRsb249fl4