Clean Slate Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3114 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3114 To require automatic sealing of certain criminal records, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 30, 2025 Mrs. McBath (for herself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require automatic sealing of certain criminal records, 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 ``Clean Slate Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. SEALING OF CERTAIN RECORDS. (a) Amendment.--Subchapter A of chapter 227 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Sec. 3560. Automatic sealing of certain records ``(a) Definitions.--In this section-- ``(1) the term `covered individual' means an individual who-- ``(A) is not a sex offender; ``(B) has been-- ``(i) arrested for a Federal offense for which the individual was not convicted; or ``(ii) convicted of an offense under section 404 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 844) or any Federal nonviolent offense involving marijuana; ``(C) in the case of a conviction described in subparagraph (B)(ii), has fulfilled each requirement of the sentence for the offense, including-- ``(i) completing each term of imprisonment, probation, or supervised release; and ``(ii) satisfying each condition of imprisonment, probation, or supervised release; and ``(D) has not been convicted for any offense related to treason, terrorism, access and transmission of sensitive defense information, or other national security related convictions; ``(2) the term `marijuana' has the meaning given the term `marihuan