New Federal Sentencing Guidelines November 2025. On november 1, 2023, significant amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines went into effect after congress took no action to veto the proposed amendments, which were adopted. Sentencing commission proposed certain amendments to the sentencing guidelines, two of which in particular could have significant effects on white collar criminal cases.

―the bipartisan united states sentencing commission voted unanimously today to prohibit conduct for which a person was acquitted in federal court from being used in. Effective november 1, 2023, the united states sentencing commission’s amendment 821, also known as the “2023 criminal history amendment,” has officially become part of the federal sentencing.