Trafficking Survivors Relief Act
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-16 — A bill to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, to provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with cannabis-descheduling-expungement: Both use vacatur/expungement of specified federal convictions as a mechanism to relieve collateral consequences, differing in the underlying offense category and eligibility triggers. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-01-23 — Trafficking Survivors Relief Act: Enacted as Pub. L. 119-73 (HR4323); establishes a federal process to vacate convictions and expunge arrest records for offenses that resulted from a person’s trafficking victimization, and recognizes trafficking victimization as a basis for a duress defense—a first-in-class federal statutory relief mechanism for trafficking survivors. (novelty: 4)