[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
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[S. 2502 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 183
117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2502

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2021

  Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Tillis, and Ms. 
    Hirono) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

                           December 13, 2021

               Reported by Mr. Durbin, without amendment

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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,''.
                                                       Calendar No. 183

117th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 2502

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 13, 2021

                       Reported without amendment