Generocity: Updated: That Clean Slate bill was just signed into law in Pennsylvania
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The bill passed in the Pennsylvania House with a vote of 188-2. The Senate had passed a nearly identical bill almost exactly one year ago that didn’t end up moving to the House.
Community Legal Services (CLS) has been a major proponent of the legislation over the page several years alongside nonpartisan policy institute Center for American Progress (CAP).
“The people who will be helped by Clean Slate were not given a life sentence for their relatively minor cases. But they are serving one just the same,” wrote CLS Litigation Director Sharon Dietrich in a statement. “Clean Slate will do so much good for so many people, at almost no cost.”
The legislation also was supported nationally by bipartisan criminal justice organization Justice Action Network, which includes members such as CAP, Americans for Tax Reform, the ACLU and the NAACP.