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2020 SESSION
SB 608 Police and court records; expungement.
Introduced by: Thomas K. Norment, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Expungement of police and court records; pardons. Allows a person to petition for the expungement of the police and court records relating to such person's conviction for misdemeanors and certain felonies if he has been granted a simple pardon for the crime. The bill also allows a person to petition for an expungement of the police and court records relating to convictions of marijuana possession, underage alcohol or tobacco possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol, and for deferred disposition dismissals for possession of controlled substances or marijuana, underage alcohol or tobacco possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol, when all court costs, fines, and restitution have been paid, and five years have elapsed since the date of completion of all terms of sentencing and probation. Under current law, police and court records relating to convictions are only expunged if a person received an absolute pardon for a crime he did not commit. This bill incorporates SB 118 and SB 517.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103840D pdf
- 01/29/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106735D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20106735D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103840D
- 01/07/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/20/20 Senate: Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
- 01/29/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/20 Senate: Incorporates SB118 (Peake)
- 01/29/20 Senate: Incorporates SB517 (McDougle)
- 01/29/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106735D-S1
- 01/29/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/06/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20106735D-S1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Amendments by Senator Surovell agreed to
- 02/11/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB608ES1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20106735D-ES1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/20 House: Read first time
- 02/14/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 03/03/20 House: Left in Courts of Justice