Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Awaiting language.
Title: Fresh Start Act of 2019
Subject: Crime and law enforcement: Criminal justice information and records: Criminal procedure and sentencing: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use: Government information and archives: Intergovernmental relations: Law enforcement administration and funding: State and local finance
Description: Establishes a process to expunge records related to certain nonviolent criminal offenses. It defines the nonviolent offenses eligible for expungement; it establishes qualifications for an eligible offender; and it sets forth procedures for filing an expungement petition. The bill increases by 5% the allocation of funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program for a state that implements expungement procedures substantially similar to this bill. It decreases by 5% the JAG allocation for a state that fails to enact substantially similar expungement procedures.
Session: 116th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: January 3, 2019
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/121/all-info
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6 sponsors: Steve Cohen (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Elijah Cummings (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Henry Johnson (D); Eleanor Norton (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jan 3 2019 | Introduced in House |
| House | Jan 3 2019 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
| House | Jan 3 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jan 15 2019 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
There have not been any votes on this bill