Virginia House Bill 268 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)
Status: Introduced on December 30 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-31 - Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictions and police and court records of victims of human trafficking. Allows any person who was a victim of human trafficking at the time of an offense that led to a criminal charge or conviction of certain crimes to petition the court to vacate such conviction and expunge the police and court records related to such conviction or to expunge the police and court records related to such charge. The bill provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a person's participation in an offense was a result of having been a victim of human trafficking if there is official documentation, defined in the bill, of the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking at the time of the offense.

Victim of human trafficking; petition for vacatur/expungement of convictions & police/court records.

Del. Steve Heretick [D]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Nancy Guy [D]
Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]
Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]
Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]	Del. Rodney Willett [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
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 20103429D

HB268 (Carry Over) 2020-01-31 - Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	392.2:1	(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?201+sum+HB268
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB268+hil