No one else need be convicted or arrested before the movant may file
To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, section 2, Sec. 2.
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No one else need be convicted or arrested before the movant may file
The document says “shall not”Who acts: United States district courtsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“It shall not be necessary that any person other than the movant be convicted of or arrested for an offense before the movant may file a motion under paragraph (1).”
Relief under the section does not depend on anyone else being prosecuted. No person other than the movant need be convicted of or arrested for an offense before the movant may file.
What the document actually says
“It shall not be necessary that any person other than the movant be convicted of or arrested for an offense before the movant may file a motion under paragraph (1).”
That sentence, in plain words
No one else has to be found guilty first. No one else has to be held first. The person can still file the ask.
What this is about
Many people who force others are never caught. This rule means a victim need not wait for that. Their own ask can go ahead.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, Public Law 119-73, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 2003 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ73/html/PLAW-119publ73.htm
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“No one else need be convicted or arrested before the movant may file,” Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/trafficking-survivors-relief-act/proposal/sec02-no-other-conviction-required/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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