AZ SB1080

Establishes the Arizona Sentencing Commission to collect data and evaluate the effectiveness of Arizona's sentencing practices, policies, and alternative sentencing programs, with consideration for public safety, economic efficiency, just punishment, deterrence, and offender rehabilitation.

Commission membership includes 24 members: ex officio members (Chief Justice, Department of Corrections Director, Probation Services Director, Juvenile Corrections Director), four legislative members, and appointed members representing prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, academics, mental health and substance abuse experts, victims' rights organizations, and the Board of Executive Clemency.

Commission duties include collecting recidivism data from probation departments, courts, jails and corrections; evaluating emerging sentencing practices in other jurisdictions; reviewing Arizona's sentencing structure; and submitting annual reports to the legislature's Judiciary committees.

Commission may request information from state agencies and political subdivisions, hold hearings and fact-finding tours, and apply for grants or donations from public and private sources.

Arizona Sentencing Commission terminates on July 1, 2024, and Title 41, Chapter 51 is repealed on January 1, 2025.