Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Marijuana Misdemeanor Expungement Act
Description: To amend Federal law to create an expungement mechanism and a process to petition for expungement for low-level violations of the Controlled Substances Act as it relates to marijuana, to study the impact of expungements issued, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 2, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Fresh Start Act of 2023
Description: To amend the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to establish grants for States for purposes of modernizing criminal justice data infrastructure to facilitate automated record sealing and expungement, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: April 27, 2023
Session: 116th Congress
Title: REDEEM Act Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act of 2019
Description: To provide for the sealing or expungement of records relating to Federal nonviolent criminal offenses, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: May 20, 2019