[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 851 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 851

   To include a Federal defender as a nonvoting member of the United 
                     States Sentencing Commission.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 16, 2023

Mr. Booker (for himself and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To include a Federal defender as a nonvoting member of the United 
                     States Sentencing Commission.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sentencing Commission Improvements 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL DEFENDER AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES 
              SENTENCING COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--Section 991(a) of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``one nonvoting 
        member'' and inserting ``2 nonvoting members''; and
            (2) in the fifth sentence, by striking ``shall be an ex 
        officio, nonvoting member'' and inserting ``and a Federal 
        public defender, or a community defender, designated by the 
        Defender Services Office of the Administrative Office of the 
        United States Courts, shall be ex officio, nonvoting members''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 235(b)(5) of the Sentencing 
Reform Act of 1984 (18 U.S.C. 3551 note) is amended, in the third 
sentence, by striking ``nine members, including two'' and inserting 
``10 members, including 3''.
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