RCW 9.94A.070
Standard sentence ranges -- Revisions or modifications -- Submission to legislature.

(1) At its regular session convening in 1983, the legislature shall enact laws approving or modifying either the standards recommended by the commission, or the additional list of standard sentence ranges consistent with prison capacity in the event an additional list has been submitted pursuant to RCW 9.94A.040(6). The standards so adopted shall take effect on July 1, 1984.

(2) Revisions or modifications of standard sentence ranges or other standards, together with any additional list of standard sentence ranges, shall be submitted to the legislature every two years and shall become effective as provided under subsection (1) of this section on July first of the year in which they are submitted.

[1981 c 137 § 7. Recodified in 2001 as RCW 9.94A.865.]