Virginia House Bill 260 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-01-15 - Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expungement of police and court records. Provides that for the purposes of expungement of police and court records the term "otherwise dismissed" means to render a legal action out of consideration in a different way or manner than a nolle prosequi or formal dismissal by the trial court. The bill specifies that the term "otherwise dismissed" also includes those circumstances when a person is charged with the commission of a crime, a civil offense, or any offense defined in relevant law and the initial charge is reduced or amended to another offense, including a lesser included offense or the same offense with a lesser gradient of punishment, so that such person is not convicted of the initial charge and may file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the initial charge.

Police and court records; expungement of records.

Del. Patrick Hope [D]

2024-01-15 - House - House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-15	House	Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
2024-01-05	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100850D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB260
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB260+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H08V0003+HB0260