H.R. 4958

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4958 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4958

To provide first-time, low-level, nonviolent simple possession 
offenders an opportunity to expunge records of disposition after 
successful completion of court-imposed probation.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 27, 2023

Mr. Ivey (for himself, Mr. Moran, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Lee of Florida, Ms. 
Scanlon, Mr. Armstrong, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Moore of 
Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL

To provide first-time, low-level, nonviolent simple possession 
offenders an opportunity to expunge records of disposition after 
successful completion of court-imposed probation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING AGE REQUIREMENT FOR EXPUNGEMENT OF CERTAIN RECORDS 
OF DISPOSITION FOR SIMPLE POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED 
SUBSTANCES BY NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS.

Section 3607(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``and the person was less than twenty-one years old at the 
time of the offense,''.
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