1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act of 2019 or the REDEEM Act . 2. Sealing of criminal records (a) Finding Congress finds that the definition of the term crime of violence recommended by the United States Sentencing Commission in the report entitled Report to the Congress: Career Offender Sentencing Enhancements , published in August 2016, is clearer and more specific than the definitions currently used in title 18, United States Code, and should be used to determine the type of offenses eligible for sealing under the amendments made by this section. (b) Amendment Chapter 229 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: E Sealing of Criminal Records Sec. 3641. Definitions; eligible individuals. 3642. Automatic sealing of records of nonviolent drug offenses. 3643. Sealing petition. 3644. Effect of sealing order. 3641. Definitions; eligible individuals (a) Definitions In this subchapter— (1) the term covered nonviolent offense means a Federal criminal offense that is not— (A) a crime of violence; or (B) a sex offense, as defined in section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ( 34 U.S.C. 20911 ); (2) the term crime of violence means any offense under Federal or State law, punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year, that— (A) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (B) is— (i) murder; (ii) voluntary manslaughter; (iii) kidnapping; (iv) aggravated assault; (v) a forcible sex offense; (vi) robbery; (vii) arson; (viii) extortion; or (ix) the use or unlawful possession of— (I) a firearm, as defined in section 5845(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or (II) explosive materials, as defined in section 841(c); (3) the term eligible individual means an individual who— (A) has been arrested for or convicted of a covered nonviolent offense