Maryland Criminal Procedure Section 6-209

      (a)      The Commission shall review annually sentencing policy and practice and, on or before December 1 of each year, report to the General Assembly in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article.

      (b)      (1)      The report shall:

                  (i)      include any changes to the sentencing guidelines made during the preceding year;

                  (ii)      review judicial compliance with the sentencing guidelines, including compliance by crime and by judicial circuit;

                  (iii)      review reductions or increases in original sentences that have occurred because of reconsiderations of sentences imposed under § 14-101 of the Criminal Law Article; and

                  (iv)      categorize information on the number of reconsiderations of sentences by crimes as listed in § 14-101(a) of the Criminal Law Article and by judicial circuit.

            (2)      The Commission shall consider a sentence to a corrections options program to be within the sentencing guidelines if the sentence falls within a corrections options zone shown on the matrix.