Virginia House Bill 485 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-14 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expungement of certain drug charges. Provides that any person who has been convicted of a charge of possession of marijuana or had a charge of possession of marijuana or other drug discharged and dismissed in accordance with the provisions of §18.2-251 more than five years prior to his petition for expungement may file a petition setting forth the relevant facts and requesting expungement of the police records and the court records relating to the charge. The bill adds that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall maintain a record of the expungement to be made available to any attorney for the Commonwealth upon request.

Drug charges; expungement of marijuana conviction and those dismissed.

Del. Onzlee Ware [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-14		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2012-01-16		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2012-01-13		House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2012-01-10		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-01-10		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101289D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	250.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB485
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB485+hil