Volume 100 · 770

Public Law 99–363

To amend section 994 of title 28, United States Code, to clarify certain duties of the United States Sentencing Commission.

Approved July 11, 1986

Statutory text

An Act

To amend section 994 of title 28, United States Code, to clarify certain duties 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 Guidelines Act of 1986”.

SEC. 2. GUIDELINES AND POLICY STATEMENTS.

Section 994 of title 28, United States Code, is amended—

in subsection (a)(2)—

by redesignating subparagraphs (D) and (E) as subparagraphs (E) and (F), respectively;

so that subparagraph (C) reads as follows:

“(C)
the sentence modification provisions set forth in sections 3563(c), 3564, 3573, and 3582(c) of title 18;”; and
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by adding after subparagraph (C) the following:

“(D)
the fine imposition provisions set forth in section 3572 of title 18;”;
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so that paragraph (3) of subsection (a) reads as follows:

guidelines or general policy statements regarding the appropriate use of the provisions for revocation of probation set forth in section 3565 of title 18, and the provisions for modification of the term or conditions of supervised release set forth in section 3583(e) of title 18.”; and
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in subsection (b)—

by inserting “(1)” after “(b)”;

by designating the second sentence as paragraph (2); and

in that second sentence as so redesignated, by striking out “25 per centum” and inserting in lieu thereof “the greater of 25 percent or 6 months, except that, if the maximum term of the range is 30 years or more, the maximum may be life imprisonment”.

Approved July 11, 1986.