Fresh Start Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3111 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3111 To amend the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to establish grants for States for purposes of modernizing criminal justice data infrastructure to facilitate automated record sealing and expungement, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 30, 2025 Ms. Lee of Florida (for herself, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Ms. Norton, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Rutherford, and Ms. Scanlon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to establish grants for States for purposes of modernizing criminal justice data infrastructure to facilitate automated record sealing and expungement, and for other purposes. 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 ``Fresh Start Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXPUNGEMENT LAWS. Section 106(b) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40302(b)) is amended-- (1) in paragraph (1)-- (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end; (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period and inserting ``; and''; and (C) by adding at the end the following: ``(E) to implement a covered expungement law.''; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ``(3) Covered expungement laws.--In this subsection: ``(A) The term `automatic' means, with regard to the expungement or sealing of a criminal record, that such expungement or sealing occurs without any action required on the part of the State from an eligible individual. ``(B) The term `covered expungement law' means a law of a State provid