The Hertzberg-Polanco Crime Laboratories Construction Bond Act of 1999.
	Official Title and Summary prepared by the Attorney General
Full Text of Proposed Law	The Hertzberg-Polanco Crime Laboratories Construction Bond Act of 1999.

• Provides for a bond issue of two hundred twenty million dollars ($220,000,000) to provide funds for a program for the construction, renovation, and infrastructure costs associated with the construction of new local forensic laboratories and the remodeling of existing local forensic laboratories.
• Creates Forensic Laboratories Authority to consider and approve applications for construction and renovation of forensic laboratories.
• Appropriates money from General Fund to pay off bonds.

Summary of Legislative Analyst's
Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• State costs of about $377 million over 25 years to pay off both the principal ($220 million) and interest ($157 million) costs of the bonds. Payments of about $15 million per year.
• One-time costs of about $20 million to local governments to match state funds.
• Unknown annual costs to local governments to support crime laboratories, potentially in the millions of dollars.

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