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Committee clears bipartisan Trafficking Survivors Relief Act to help victims vacate nonviolent convictions
Summary
The Judiciary Committee unanimously moved HR 4323, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, forward after adopting a substitute that clarifies eligibility and safeguards. The bill would provide a federal pathway for trafficking survivors to vacate certain nonviolent convictions committed as a direct result of victimization.
The House Judiciary Committee advanced HR 4323, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, after bipartisan discussion and adoption of an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Members on both sides of the aisle urged support for a measure that would permit trafficking survivors who committed nonviolent offenses as a direct result of being trafficked to seek vacation of convictions or expungement at the federal level.
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