Virginia House Bill 2778 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictions and police and court records of human trafficking victims. Allows any person who was a human trafficking victim 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.

Human trafficking victims; petition for vacatur and expungement of convictions, etc.

Del. Charniele Herring [D]

2019-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2019-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
2019-01-29	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-18	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 19101748D

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?191+sum+HB2778
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2778+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0801V0127+HB2778