Virginia Senate Bill 482

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expungement and sealing of juvenile court records. Provides for the sealing of juvenile court records in those instances where a juvenile was found guilty of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult and such juvenile has attained the age of 18 years and three years have elapsed since the date of the last hearing in the case of such juvenile. Under current law, such records are open to the public. The bill also provides that any juvenile court records that may be expunged shall be expunged when the juvenile who is the subject of the records has attained the age of 18 years and three years have elapsed since the date of the last hearing in the case of such juvenile. Under current law, such juvenile shall have attained the age of 19 years and five years shall have elapsed since the date of the last hearing in the case of such juvenile.

Juveniles; expungement and sealing of court records.

Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]

2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103246D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	305	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	306.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB482
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB482+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24107075D.pdf
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S13V0102+SB0482