Virginia House Bill 2278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on February 27 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-02-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [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 that 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 the Secretary of the Commonwealth to forward a copy of any absolute pardon to the circuit court where the person was convicted of the crime for which the absolute pardon was granted.

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

Del. Mark Cole [R]

2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-25 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-27		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181)
2019-02-27		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 181 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-18		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-18	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
2019-02-14	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-14	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-14	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2278ER)
2019-02-14	House	Enrolled
2019-02-11	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-08	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2019-02-01	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-01-31	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-01-30	House	Read second time and engrossed
2019-01-29	House	Read first time
2019-01-25	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 0-N)
2019-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2019-01-22	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100183D

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?191+sum+HB2278
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2278+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2278ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0181+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0801V0077+HB2278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H08V0078+HB2278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2080+HB2278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0231+HB2278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0488HB2278+HB2278
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0492HB2278+HB2278