2015. The November 2015 edits additional safe guards from releasing repeat, violent offenders and applied retroactivity to sentences. Movement to passage The bill was held over during several meetings in the fourth quarter of 2013. It gained momentum on January 30, 2014 when the Senate Judiciary Committee passed it and agreed to move the bill to the floor for additional work. The Act was passed by a vote of 13 to 5. On March 11, 2014 updates were done. Most of the original text was lined through and new text was incorporated. The United States Sentencing Commission scheduled a vote of for April 10, 2014, to consider a reduction in the base level offense of certain drug convictions. The decision was unanimous by the Commission in favor of the reductions which impacts potentially 70% of the drug offense prison population. The chair of the Commission issued a statement on the same day saying that "This modest reduction in drug penalties is an important step toward reducing the problem of prison overcrowding at the federal level in a proportionate and fair manner," said Judge Patti B. Saris, chair of the commission. "Reducing the federal prison population has become urgent, with that population almost three times where it was in 1991." Legislative history References United States proposed federal criminal legislation Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress Proposed legislation of the 114th United States Congress Proposed legislation of the 115th United States Congress Proposed legislation of the 116th United States Congress Proposed legislation of the 117th United States Congress