The following table shows how proposed changes to Kentucky’s current heroin trafficking laws—including the House’s new proposal from last night (SB 192)—would affect sentencing and corrections costs. Increasing sentences and/or mandatory time served for drug offenders would raise costs to the state but likely have little impact on the problem. Such spending is significant to the state’s budget as a whole—and also specifically to how much funding is available to address the state’s heroin problem through substance abuse treatment and other proven methods. 
