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(a) The West Virginia Sentencing Commission is hereby created as a subcommittee of the Governors Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction.

(b) The purpose of the commission is to promote a fuller understanding of this states criminal justice sentencing system, and shall include the review and research of issues of sentence length imposed, actual sentence length served, parole eligibility, parole revocation, determinate or indeterminate sentences, availability of alternatives to incarceration for certain offenses, and the respective roles that each of these and other criminal sanction issues may play in the increased demand for prison bed space.

(c) The commission consists of the following members, who serve without compensation:

(1) The Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, or his or her designee;