Amendment Cycle
Proposed Priorities
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. (ET) pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the...
Public Meetings
Public Meetings
Amendment Cycle
Adopted Amendments
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. (ET). The meeting was streamed live...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Friday, January 30, 2026.
Amendment Cycle
Final Priorities
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. (EDT) pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the...
Amendment Cycle
Adopted Amendments
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. (ET). A video recording and...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
Amendment Cycle
Final Priorities
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. (EDT) pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the...
Amendment Cycle
Adopted Amendments
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 1:30 pm (ET). The meeting was streamed live...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
Commissioners voted to publish proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines and issues for comment.
Amendment Cycle
Final Priorities
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. (EDT) pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the...
Amendment Cycle
Adopted Amendments
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. (ET). The meeting was streamed live...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
Commissioners voted to publish proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines.
Amendment Cycle
Final Priorities
Commissioners voted to finalize 2022-2023 policy priorities.
Commissioners met on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. (ET).
Commissioners voted to finalize 2018-2019 policy priorities.
Amendment Cycle
Adopted Amendments
A public meeting of the Commission was held on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. (ET) pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
A public meeting was held to vote on whether to publish additional proposed guideline amendments and issues for comment.
Video
January 2018
On January 19, 2018, the Commission held a public meeting and voted to publish additional proposed amendments to the...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Priorities
Commissioners met to vote on final policy priorities and publish proposed amendments.
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
Commissioners voted to publish proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines.
December 2016
At a public meeting on Friday, December 9, 2016, commissioners voted to publish proposed amendments to the federal...
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Priorities
Commissioners met to vote on final policy priorities and new Rules of Practice and Procedure.
August 2016
On August 18, 2016, the Commission held a public meeting to finalize policy priorities for the upcoming amendment cycle...
Amendment Cycle
Adopted Amendments
April 2016
Watch the Commission's public meeting to vote to adopt amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines.
Amendment Cycle
Proposed Amendments
Commissioners met to vote to promulgate a proposed crime of violence amendment and publish other proposed amendments.
Amendment Cycle
Final Priorities
Commissioners met to vote to finalize priorities for the upcoming amendment cycle.
Data Briefing
January 2015
This data briefing is intended to inform the public of recent USSC work on "crimes of violence" and other issues.
Data Briefing
January 2015
This data briefing is intended to inform public comment on proposed amendments related to economic crime.
Data Briefing
January 2014
This data briefing is intended to inform public comment on a proposed amendment. Deadline: March 18, 2014
Minutes of the first Commission Business Meeting