Virginia House Bill 294 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on December 30 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-12-04 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expungement of police and court records; misdemeanor convictions. Allows a person convicted of a misdemeanor to file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the conviction if (i) such person has been free from any term of incarceration, probation, and postrelease supervision imposed as a result of such conviction for at least two years and (ii) such person has no pending criminal proceeding. The bill also requires the court to grant such petition for expungement of police and court records if such petition is for a misdemeanor arrest, charge, or conviction. Currently, except in certain cases, the person is not entitled to an order of expungement, and the court hearing the petition must find that the continued existence and possible dissemination of such records causes or may cause circumstances that constitute a manifest injustice to such person before such an order will be entered.

Police and court records; expungement of records, misdemeanor convictions.

Del. Don Scott [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-04	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-01-31	House	Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2019-12-30	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-12-30	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102009D

HB294 (Carry Over) 2020-01-31 - Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	392.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB294
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB294+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB294F122+PDF