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Executive Order 13950: Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
From the Document: "[I]t shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or in the Uniformed Services, and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes. In addition, Federal contractors will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
Trump, Donald, 1946-
2020-09-22
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Covid-19 News and Information: Summary of Views About Misinformation
From the Overview: "As a response to the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] outbreak, Ofcom has carried out an online survey of c.2,000 respondents initially on a weekly basis and from August onwards on a monthly basis, to monitor how people are getting news and information about the crisis. This research is designed to support a range of stakeholders with their activities during this time. Fieldwork takes place at the weekend, asking people about their habits and attitudes of the previous seven days. Fieldwork in the first week of the research took place between 27-29 March, just after the Prime Minister had announced lockdown measures and week twenty-five's fieldwork (the most recent covered in this report) took place between 11-13 September. This report summarises the findings from the questions we have asked about Covid-19- related misinformation, as a contribution to the ongoing debates around the topic. The topic of misinformation is of course a complex issue, and survey research can be challenging to carry out, not least because respondents can have different views on whether or not something is misinformation, and because top-of-mind responses about misinformation can mask more nuanced views."
Great Britain. Office of Communications
2020-09-22
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Death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Initial Considerations for Congress [September 21, 2020]
From the Document: "On September 18, 2020, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, passed away at the age of eighty-seven, vacating a seat on the High Court that she had held for twenty-seven years. [...] This Legal Sidebar highlights several areas of law where Justice Ginsburg--either by authoring or joining a majority opinion or a notable dissent--proved consequential to the trajectory of Supreme Court jurisprudence. In so doing, this post provides a broad overview of key legal issues Congress (and, more specifically the Senate through its advice-and-consent role) may consider as it reflects on Justice Ginsburg's jurisprudence and how her eventual successor might shape the future of the Court."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Brannon, Valerie C.; Lewis, Caitlain Devereaux; Garcia, Michael John
2020-09-21
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Review of CBP's Major Cybersecurity Incident During a 2019 Biometric Pilot
From the Highlights: "In May 2019, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) subcontractor discovered it had been the victim of a cyber attack. Subsequently, CBP data, including traveler images from CBP's facial recognition pilot, appeared on the dark web. We conducted this review to determine whether CBP ensured adequate protection of biometric data during the 2019 pilot."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2020-09-21
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 5546, Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on February 12, 2020. From the Document: "Under current law, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) operates an electronic communication system known as TRULINCS [Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System] that inmates in federal prisons use to send emails to approved contacts, such as family members and legal counsel. In 2020, BOP spent $14 million to operate TRULINCS, largely through a contract with a private vendor. For security and other purposes, inmates and their contacts must consent to having those communications monitored by BOP before using the system."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2020-09-21
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CBO's Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 5245, the Stopping Harm and Implementing Enhanced Lead-Time for Debt for Veterans Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 30, 2020. From the Document: "The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 establishes budget-reporting and enforcement procedures for legislation affecting direct spending or revenues. The net changes in outlays that are subject to those procedures are shown here. H.R. 5245 would increase direct spending by prohibiting VA [Veterans' Affairs] from collecting fees and interest on certain debts and by extending the period in which veterans may request relief from debts."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2020-09-21
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Executive Order 13949: Blocking Property of Certain Persons with Respect to the Conventional Arms Activities of Iran
From the Document: "It remains the policy of the United States to counter Iran's malign influence in the Middle East, including transfers from Iran of destabilizing conventional weapons and acquisition of arms and related materiel by Iran. Transfers to and from Iran of arms or related materiel or military equipment represent a continuing threat to regional and international security--as evidenced by Iran's continued military support that fuels ongoing conflict in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. Iran benefits from engaging in the conventional arms trade by strengthening its relationships with other outlier regimes, lessening its international isolation, and deriving revenue that it uses to support terror groups and fund malign activities."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
Trump, Donald, 1946-
2020-09-21
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FAQs for Wildland Firefighters
From the Document: "The best way to prevent COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] is to avoid being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2], the virus that causes COVID-19. All firefighters and support personnel should have a basic understanding of COVID-19, how the disease is thought to spread, what the symptoms of the disease are, and what measures can be taken to prevent or minimize the transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-09-21
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 3228, VA Mission Telehealth Clarification Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 30, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 3228 would allow supervised health care trainees at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide care using telemedicine to more patients. Under current practice, supervised health care trainees can use telemedicine to provide care to veterans in the state in which they are licensed. The bill would allow those trainees working with VA to use telemedicine to provide health care to veterans in any state. On the basis of information from VA, CBO [Congressional Budget Office] estimates that health care trainees would use telemedicine in about 5,400 appointments with veterans located in other states each year. CBO expects that half of those appointments would be an addition to the current workload of patient visits, at an average cost of $400 per appointment."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2020-09-21
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Covid-Related Misinformation on YouTube: 'The Spread of Misinformation Videos on Social Media and the Effectiveness of Platform Policies'
From the Summary: "For this memo, we identified all Covid [coronavirus disease 2019]-related videos which circulated on social media, but which YouTube eventually removed because they contained false information. Between October, 2019 and June, 2020 there were 8,105 such videos - less than 1% of all YouTube videos about the coronavirus. We find that: [1] It took YouTube on average 41 days to remove videos containing false information, based on a subset of videos for which this data was available. [2] Surprisingly, Covid-related misinformation videos do not find their audience through YouTube itself, but largely by being shared on Facebook. [3] Facebook placed warning labels about false information only on 55 videos, less than 1% of the misinformation videos shared on the platform. [4] Misinformation videos were shared almost 20 million times on social media, which is more than the shares gathered by the five largest English-language news sources on YouTube combined."
Oxford Internet Institute. Project on Computational Propaganda
Knuutila, Aleksi; Herasimenka, Aliaksandr; Au, Hubert . . .
2020-09-21
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In Response: Yan et al Preprint Examinations of the Origin of SARS-CoV-2
From the Document: "In this document, we have undertaken a scientific review of a recent report, released as a preprint put forward by the Rule of Law Society, authored by Li-Meng Yan, Shu Kang, Jie Guan, and Shanchang Hu. The report, 'Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route', presents a theory about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 but offers contradictory and inaccurate information that does not support their argument. As the report has not been submitted to a scientific peer-reviewed publication, which would provide the expert scrutiny expected by the scientific community and the larger public, we aim to provide an objective analysis of details included in the report, as would be customary in a peer-review process."
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Center for Health Security
2020-09-21
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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Weekly Epidemiological Update [20 September 2020]
From the Document: "To date, over 30.6 million COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases and 950,000 deaths have been reported to WHO [World Health Organization]. From 14 through 20 September, there were almost 2 million new cases of COVID-19, which represents a 6% increase compared to the previous week, and the highest number of reported cases in a single week since the beginning of the epidemic. During the same period, there was a 10% decrease in the number of deaths, with 36,764 deaths reported in the past seven days."
World Health Organization
2020-09-20
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Vote Intention in November: Evidence from an Early September Survey
From the Document: "The results of a survey conducted of registered voters in seven battleground states by the Stanford-MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Healthy Elections Project suggest that although the U.S. will see historic levels of mail voting in November, the levels are below what similar studies showed just a couple of months ago. While the results cannot directly address the issue of causality, the pattern of results unsurprisingly suggests that the partisan differences that have emerged over mail balloting explain the reduced ardor over voting by mail. Less than half the respondents from six of the seven states studied (Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) report they are likely to vote by mail in November."
Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project
Stewart, Charles, III
2020-09-20
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COVIDView: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity, Week 38 [September 19, 2020]
From the Key Updates: "Nationally, indicators that track COVID-19 [coronavirus sidease 2019] activity continued to decline or remain stable (change of ≤0.1%); however, three regions reported an increase in the percentage of specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2], the virus causing COVID-19, and one of those regions also reported an increase in the percentage of visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) and COVID-like illness (CLI) to emergency departments (EDs). Mortality attributed to COVID-19 declined but remains above the epidemic threshold."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-09-19
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Interim Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines for Handling and Processing Specimens Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Updated September 19, 2020)
From the Document: "Until more information becomes available, precautions should be taken in handling specimens that are suspected or confirmed for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]. Timely communication between clinical and laboratory staff is essential to minimize the risk incurred in handling specimens from patients with possible SARS-CoV-2 infection. Such specimens should be labeled accordingly, and the laboratory should be alerted to ensure proper specimen handling. General and specific biosafety guidelines for handling SARS-CoV-2 specimens are provided[.]"
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-09-19
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 18, 2020
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fetal Deaths -- United States, 2015-2017"; "Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations -- United States, 2013-2017"; "Serial Testing for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] and Virus Whole Genome Sequencing Inform Infection Risk at Two Skilled Nursing Facilities with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Outbreaks -- Minnesota, April June 2020"; "Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities Through Preemptive Testing of Residents and Staff Members -- Fulton County, Georgia, March-May 2020"; "Association Between CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] Quality Ratings and COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes -- West Virginia, March 17-June 11, 2020"; "Decreased Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020"; "E-cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students -- United States, 2020"; "E-cigarette Unit Sales, by Product and Flavor Type -- United States, 2014-2020"; "Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 Outbreaks Associated with Child Care Facilities -- Salt Lake City, Utah, April-July 2020"; "SARS-CoV-2-Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-09-18
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Net Neutrality Debate: Access to Broadband Networks [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Introduction: "As congressional policymakers continue to debate telecommunications reform, a major discussion point revolves around what approach should be taken to ensure unfettered access to the internet. The move to place restrictions on the owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the internet, to ensure equal access and nondiscriminatory treatment, is referred to as 'net neutrality.' There is no single accepted definition of 'net neutrality.' However, most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network. A major focus in the debate is concern over whether the regulatory framework as delineated in the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) 2015 Open Internet Order is the appropriate approach to ensure access to the internet for content, services, and applications providers, as well as consumers, or whether a less regulatory approach contained in the 2017 Order is more suitable. [...] Whether Congress will take broader action to amend existing law to provide guidance and more stability to FCC authority over broadband access remains to be seen."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Gilroy, Angele A.
2020-09-18
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Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Introduction: "This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, a program carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy that gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for conducting BMD operations. The issue for Congress is whether to approve, reject, or modify Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition strategies and proposed funding levels for the Aegis BMD program. Congress's decisions on the Aegis BMD program could significantly affect U.S. BMD capabilities and funding requirements, and the BMD-related industrial base."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
O'Rourke, Ronald
2020-09-18
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FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Issues [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Introduction: "Each year, the House and Senate armed services committees take up national defense authorization bills. The House of Representatives passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA; H.R. 2500) on July 12, 2019. The Senate passed its version of the NDAA (S. 1790) on June 27, 2019. These bills contain numerous provisions that affect military personnel, retirees, and their family members. Provisions in one version may not be included in the other, may be treated differently, or may be identical to those in the other versions. Following passage of each chamber's bill, a conference committee typically convenes to resolve the differences between the respective chambers' versions of the bill. The House passed the FY2020 NDAA conference report on December 11, 2019, and the Senate passed the report on December 17, 2019. On December 20, 2019, President Donald J. Trump signed the bill into law (P.L. 116-92). This report highlights selected personnel-related issues that may generate high levels of congressional and constituent interest. Related CRS [Congressional Research Service] products are identified in each section to provide more detailed background information and analysis of the issues."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Mendez, Bryce H. P.; Ott, Alan; Kamarck, Kristy N. . . .
2020-09-18
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Iran's Nuclear Program and U.N. Sanctions Reimposition [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015), which the council adopted on July 20, 2015, implements the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and contains other provisions concerning Iran's nuclear program, Tehran's development of missiles, and arms transfers to and from Iran. The United States has threatened to invoke the resolution's 'snapback' mechanism, which requires the Security Council to reimpose U.N. sanctions lifted pursuant to Resolution 2231 and the JCPOA. The JCPOA, finalized in July 2015 by Iran and China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively known as the P5+1), requires Iran to implement constraints on its uranium enrichment and heavy water nuclear reactor programs, as well as allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor Tehran's compliance with the agreement. Prior to the JCPOA, these programs caused international concern because they could both have produced fissile material for use in nuclear weapons."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Kerr, Paul K.
2020-09-18
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Worker Rights Provisions in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Overview: "Worker rights are a prominent issue in U.S. FTA [Free Trade Agreement] negotiations. Some stakeholders believe worker rights provisions are necessary to protect U.S. workers from perceived unfair competition and to raise labor standards abroad. Others believe these rights are more appropriately addressed at the International Labor Organization (ILO) or through cooperative efforts and capacity building. Since 1988, Congress has included worker rights as a principal negotiating objective in Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation. The United States has been in the forefront of using FTAs to promote core internationally recognized worker rights. Labor provisions have evolved significantly since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), moving from side agreements to integral chapters within FTA texts, with more provisions subject to enforcement. The conclusion of NAFTA renegotiations resulted in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaces NAFTA and has a new labor chapter and enforcement mechanism. USMCA entered into force in July 2020."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Villarreal, M. Angeles; Cimino-Isaacs, Cathleen D.
2020-09-18
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Overview of Testing for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Testing Overview
From the Document: "This document is intended to provide guidance on the appropriate use of testing for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] in light of additional testing capacity throughout the country and does not address decisions regarding payment for or insurance coverage of such testing."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-09-18
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Monitoring and Evaluation Checklist for K-12 Schools Checklist for K-12 Schools
From the Intended Audience(s): "State and local education and public health agencies, school and district administrators, and evaluation professionals, in collaboration, may use this checklist when planning for monitoring and evaluation of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] mitigation strategies implemented in K-12 [kindergarten through 12th grade] schools. The checklist contains fundamental information to support development of a useful and feasible monitoring and evaluation plan. This checklist is not an exhaustive list, but rather includes key considerations that address how to: [1] Determine the scope of a monitoring and evaluation plan; [2] Develop an evaluation design for the monitoring and evaluation plan; [3] Identify key indicators and data sources; [and 4] Determine how findings may be shared for timely decision-making and transparency[.]"
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-09-18
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CARES Act (P.L. 116-136): Provisions Designed to Help Banks and Credit Unions [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "The economic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may cause numerous borrowers to miss loan repayments, potentially leading to distress at banks and credit unions. Because of the importance of banking to the economy, federal depository regulators have implemented 'safety and soundness' regulations, including lending, capital, and liquidity rules. Regulators also have the authority to supervise banks, which includes requiring banks to report financial information. As part of Congress's response to COVID-19, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136) includes four sections--4011, 4012, 4013, and 4014--that temporarily relax some of the regulations banks face. Section 4016 expands access to the Central Liquidity Facility (CLF), which is a liquidity facility for credit unions that exists at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). This Insight examines those sections."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Perkins, David W.; Getter, Darryl E.; Gnanarajah, Raj
2020-09-18
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Elections Grant Funding for States: Recent Appropriations and Legislative Proposals [September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and reports of attempted election interference have introduced new challenges for election administration that are ongoing, difficult for states and localities to manage alone, or both. Election security threats evolve, for example, and election officials' defenses have to evolve with them. Securing election systems against potential interference and protecting voters and election workers against a pandemic may involve significant changes to election processes and correspondingly significant financial investments. Congress has responded to such challenges, in part, with funding for elections grant programs. As of this writing, Congress has appropriated more than $1.2 billion to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for grant funding for states, territories, and the District of Columbia (DC) since FY2018 and considered proposals that would authorize or fund further grant programs."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Shanton, Karen L.
2020-09-18
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Resurgence of Chemical Weapons Use: Issues for Congress [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "With increasing numbers of incidents, the use of chemical weapons (CW) has become a growing international concern two decades after the international community decided to ban them under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Syrian government forces have used the nerve agent sarin and chlorine bombs dozens of times since 2013 in that country's civil war. [...] Prior to the Syrian civil war, there had been no major recent use of chemical weapons since the 1995 terror attack by the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo and by Iraq in the 1980s during its war with Iran. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), originally established to oversee the destruction of chemical weapons stocks under the CWC and promote the safe and peaceful use of chemicals, now has additional challenges and responsibilities. States may request OPCW assistance in investigating cases of CW use. CWC states may also request challenge inspections at facilities in member states suspected to be in violation of the convention. To date, the CWC challenge inspection provision has never been invoked."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Nikitin, Mary Beth Dunham
2020-09-18
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SBA Veterans Assistance Programs: An Analysis of Contemporary Issues [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Summary: "This report opens with an examination of the economic circumstances of veteran-owned businesses. It then provides a brief overview of veterans' employment experiences, comparing unemployment and labor force participation rates for veterans, veterans who have left the military since September 2001, and nonveterans. The report also describes employment assistance programs offered by several federal agencies to assist veterans in their transition from the military to the civilian labor force and examines, in greater detail, the SBA's [Small Business Administration] veteran business development programs, the SBA's efforts to assist veterans' access to capital, and the SBA's veteran contracting programs. It also discusses the SBA's Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and P.L. 114-38, the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015, which authorized and made permanent, under specified circumstances, the SBA's recent practice of waiving the SBAExpress loan program's one time, up-front loan guarantee fee for veterans (and their spouse)."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Dilger, Robert Jay, 1954-; Lowry, Sean
2020-09-18
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Confirmation of U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations During Presidential Election Years: Frequently Asked Questions [September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "This report provides data and analysis related to frequently asked questions about the confirmation of U.S. circuit and district court nominations during presidential election years. Senators with different political views have at different times have spoken of their expectations of a potential drop-off in the confirmation of lower federal court nominees occurring earlier in presidential election years than in other years (and, consequently, the expectation that fewer such nominees would be confirmed in presidential election years). There is, however, no written Senate or Judiciary Committee rule concerning the processing of judicial nominations during presidential election years, and the volume and timing of the processing of such nominations has varied over time. [...] The report includes data from presidential election years and other years during the period 1977 to 2016 (i.e., from the Carter presidency through the Obama presidency).When relevant, data are also presented for the 2017 to 2020 period. Analysis of past data is not presented as being predictive of future activity by the Senate on judicial nominations during presidential election years or other years."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
McMillion, Barry J.
2020-09-18
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COVID-19 Health Care Provider Relief Fund [Updated September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, some health care providers limited in-person visits and cancelled elective procedures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, prepare for COVID-19 patients, and conserve personal protective equipment. As a consequence, some providers reported forgone revenue and/or significant financial challenges, making it difficult to sustain services. To address these concerns, Congress established the Provider Relief Fund (PRF, or the Fund) in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136) and appropriated $100 billion 'to reimburse, through grants or other mechanisms, eligible health care providers for health care related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable to coronavirus.' The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (PPPHCEA, P.L. 116-139) added an additional $75 billion to the Fund."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Heisler, Elayne J., 1976-
2020-09-18
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Criminal Records Expungement and the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019 [September 18, 2020]
From the Document: "The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019 (H.R. 3884; S. 2227) would expunge the criminal records of convictions for qualifying federal marijuana offenses and all related arrests for individuals no longer serving a criminal justice sentence. Most of these offenses fall under the Controlled Substances Act, but Section 2 of both the House and Senate bills references other federal marijuana offenses in Title 16 and Title 18 of the U.S. Code. The bills would require each federal district court, within one year of enactment of the bill, to issue an order expunging records of convictions or adjudications for juvenile delinquency and related arrests for federal marijuana offenses entered into, on, or after May 1, 1971, up until the day the bill is enacted. Also, the bills would allow anyone who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a marijuana offense and is not currently serving a sentence to petition the court for expungement, which would allow for convictions and associated arrests to be expunged before the end of the one-year review period. [...] The MORE Act would allow those currently serving a sentence for a federal marijuana offense to petition a court for resentencing as if the penalty for their marijuana offense was not in effect at the time of their initial sentencing."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
James, Nathan; Sacco, Lisa N.
2020-09-18
