SB386 Summary

• Amends the Alabama Sentencing Commission to include 17 voting members representing judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, victims, legislators, corrections officials, and community representatives with membership reflecting racial, gender, geographic, and economic diversity.

• Delays presentation of truth-in-sentencing standards to the 2020 Regular Session instead of an earlier date, with standards scheduled to become effective October 1, 2020 if approved by the Legislature.

• Requires the Sentencing Commission to submit its annual report to the Legislature within the first five legislative days of each regular session, with modifications for nonviolent offenses becoming effective October 1 unless rejected by legislative act.

• Makes sentencing standards presumptive for nonviolent offenses effective October 1, 2013, allowing judges to depart from recommendations based on defined aggravating or mitigating factors that must be stated on the record.

• Establishes that sentences under truth-in-sentencing standards include a minimum term and extended term (120% of minimum plus one year post-release supervision), with no sentence of active incarceration being suspendable.