A GOP-controlled congressional committee has approved a bill to repeal a Washington, D.C. law expanding expungements for marijuana possession.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), voted on Wednesday to approve the legislation—one in a series of proposals the panel advanced targeting a variety of local D.C. policies.
The cannabis expungement policy is part of the Second Chance Amendment Act, a District law passed in 2022 that took effect the next year.
Under the law, the District’s judiciary was mandated to automatically expunge marijuana possession records for offenses that took place before D.C. enacted a limited cannabis legalization law in 2014.
Heres’s the key text of the D.C. law that the congressional bill would repeal:
“The Court shall order automatic expungement of all criminal records and court proceedings related only to citations, arrests, charges, or convictions for the commission of a criminal offense that has subsequently been decriminalized, legalized, or held to be unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia or the Supreme Court of the United States, or records related only to simple possession for any quantity of marijuana in violation of § 48-904.01(d)(1) before February 15, 2015…”
“The Second Chance Amendment Act expanded expungement
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