Virginia House Bill 141 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: Introduced on December 19 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expungement of police and court records; absolute pardon. Provides for the automatic expungement of the police and court records relating to a person's conviction if he has been granted an absolute pardon for a crime he did not commit. Under current law, the person granted the absolute pardon must petition the court for an order of expungement. The bill requires that the Secretary of the Commonwealth forward a copy of any absolute pardon to the circuit court where the person was convicted of the crime for which the pardon was granted.

Police and court records; expungement of records, absolute pardon.

Del. Mark Cole [R]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. Richard Bell [R]	Del. Steve Heretick [D]
Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]
Del. Tony Wilt [R]

2018-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
2018-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2017-12-19	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-12-19	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101348D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	392.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	402	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB141
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB141+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0801V0030+HB0141