[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8560 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8560

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 2020

  Mr. Jeffries (for himself and Mr. Taylor) 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 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 ``Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING AGE REQUIREMENT FOR EXPUNGEMENT OF CERTAIN 
              CONVICTIONS 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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