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2022 SESSION
SB 564 Criminal records; sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred & dismissed disposition or conviction.
Introduced by: L. Louise Lucas | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred and dismissed disposition or conviction. Eliminates the lifetime cap on the number of sealing petitions that may be filed. The bill reduces from seven years to three years for a misdemeanor offense and from 10 years to seven years for a felony offense the minimum period of time between the offense to be sealed and the filing of the sealing petition during which the petitioner must not have been convicted of violating any law of the Commonwealth. The bill also reduces from seven years to three years the minimum period of time between the offense to be sealed and the automatic sealing of a misdemeanor offense. The bill also clarifies that a sealing petition may seal records related to any violation of the terms and conditions of a suspended sentence or probation for such conviction that were specifically set forth in the petition to be sealed.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104109D pdf
- 02/07/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105787D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/14/22 Senate: Printed as engrossed 22105787D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104109D
- 01/12/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/07/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (7-Y 6-N 2-A)
- 02/07/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105787D-S1
- 02/07/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/10/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (13-Y 1-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22105787D-S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/14/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB564ES1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Printed as engrossed 22105787D-ES1
- 02/15/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/22/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/22 House: Read first time
- 02/22/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 03/01/22 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 03/04/22 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 2-N)
- 03/08/22 House: Left in Courts of Justice