Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 483-H.F.No. 1983 
           An act relating to sentencing; directing the 
          sentencing guidelines commission to study certain 
          sentencing issues; requiring the commission to report 
          back to the legislature with proposed changes to 
          respond to these issues. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [COMMISSION TO STUDY CERTAIN SENTENCING ISSUES; 
REPORT TO LEGISLATURE REQUIRED.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [REPORT REQUIRED.] The sentencing 
guidelines commission shall study the sentencing issues outlined 
in subdivision 2 and submit a written report to the judiciary 
committees of the house of representatives and the senate on or 
before February 1, 1989.  The report shall contain proposed 
modifications to the sentencing guidelines, the sentencing 
guidelines grid, or Minnesota Statutes which will, in the 
commission's judgment, improve the operation of the sentencing 
guidelines system with respect to these issues and better 
achieve the sentencing goals of uniformity, neutrality, and 
proportionality. 
    Subd. 2.  [ISSUES TO BE STUDIED.] The commission shall 
study the following sentencing issues:  
    (1) should criteria and procedures be developed to limit 
the length of aggravated durational departures from presumptive 
sentences; 
    (2) whether improved criteria and procedures can be 
developed to minimize or eliminate the use of social and 
economic factors as the basis for dispositional departures from 
presumptive sentences; and 
    (3) whether and to what extent guidelines should be 
developed to govern the type and severity of nonimprisonment 
sanctions imposed by sentencing judges as conditions of stayed 
sentences. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Approved April 12, 1988