US SB2590

Establishes a federal grant program allowing the Attorney General to award up to $5,000,000 per state to modernize criminal justice data infrastructure for automatic record expungement and sealing

Requires eligible states to have an automatic expungement law that does not delay record clearing due to unpaid fees or fines

Limits research and planning expenditures to 10% of grant funds, with remaining amounts dedicated to infrastructure implementation; federal grants may cover no more than 75% of implementation costs

Mandates annual state reporting on expungement-eligible individuals and records cleared, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender, with the Attorney General publishing this data publicly

Authorizes $50,000,000 annually for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to fund the program