[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2596 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2596

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2023

 Mr. Coons (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and 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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