[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2617 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2617

    To provide first-time, low-level, nonviolent simple possession 
offenders under age 25 an opportunity to expunge that conviction after 
           successful completion of court-imposed probation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2017

Mr. Jeffries (for himself, Mr. Gowdy, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. 
  Scott of Virginia, Mr. Donovan, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. DeSantis, Mr. 
Cardenas, Mrs. Love, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Curbelo of 
   Florida) 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 under age 25 an opportunity to expunge that conviction 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 ``Renew Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. LOWERING THE AGE FOR EXPUNGEMENT OF CERTAIN CONVICTIONS FOR 
              SIMPLE POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES BY NONVIOLENT 
              YOUNG OFFENDERS.

    Section 3607(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``less than twenty-one'' and inserting ``less than twenty-
five''.
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