Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
An effort to automatically expunge or seal arrest records which will help clear up some issues LTCF applicants run into with flaws in our background check system.
Title: Fresh Start Act of 2023
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
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.
Session: 118th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: April 27, 2023
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2983/all-info
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22 sponsors: David Trone (D); Nancy Mace (R); Lisa Rochester (D); Don Bacon (R); Brian Fitzpatrick (R); Kelly Armstrong (R); Dan Crenshaw (R); Mary Gay Scanlon (D); Josh Harder (D); Dan Meuser (R); Ann Kuster (D); Brad Wenstrup (R); Eleanor Norton (D); John Rutherford (R); Nikki Budzinski (D); Daniel Goldman (D); Tony Cardenas (D); Kweisi Mfume (D); Laurel Lee (R); Jonathan Jackson (D); Russell Fry (R); Morgan McGarvey (D)
Chamber | Date | Action |
House | Apr 27 2023 | Introduced in House |
House | Apr 27 2023 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
Introduced | May 10 2023 | 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: Judiciary
There have not been any votes on this bill