Judicial performance evaluation program; risk assessment tool, use of alternative sanction.

Judicial performance evaluation program; riskassessment tool; use of alternative sanction. Requires the VirginiaCriminal Sentencing Commission to report to the Supreme Court andthe Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justicethe number of cases during a judge's term in which an offender qualifiedfor use of the risk assessment tool, received a recommendation foran alternative sanction on the basis of the assessment, and whena sentence was imposed and an alternative sanction was not given. The bill requires sentencing courts to use sentencing guidelinesto determine the cost of incarceration for an offender who receivesthe minimum recommended sentence and to include the cost on the sentencingguideline form. The bill also requires the Commission to determineand include on a judge's judicial performance evaluation the totalcosts of imposing a sentence on each offender who was evaluated bythe risk assessment tool and who received a recommendation for analternative sanction but did not receive an alternative sanctionduring a judge's term.