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SUBCOMMITTEE
1. After line 323, introduced
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2. That the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission shall
revise all labels on Sentencing Guidelines worksheets and instructions in the Sentencing
Guidelines Manual so that any conviction for an offense defined as a Class 1 misdemeanor or any other misdemeanor with a
maximum penalty of 364 days of incarceration, as provided by the provisions of
this act, shall be scored as if the maximum penalty were 12 months for the
purposes of preparing and using the discretionary sentencing guidelines
pursuant to § 19.2-298.01 of the Code of Virginia. But the Commission shall not
modify any scores assigned on the worksheets without following the process
prescribed in § 17.1-806 of the Code of Virginia.