Virginia Senate Bill 1303 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-22 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expungement and sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred and dismissed disposition or conviction by petition; defendant with a disorder or disability. Provides that a defendant with a disorder or disability, as defined in the bill, may file a petition that requests the sealing of the criminal history record information and court records of a Class 4 felony conviction or deferred and dismissed disposition. Under current law, Class 4 felony convictions or deferred and dismissed dispositions are ineligible to be sealed. The bill also provides that when a conviction or deferral and dismissal has been sealed, the defendant of such sealed record is a defendant with a disorder or disability, and the Governor granted the defendant a simple pardon for the commission of the crime or offense that was sealed, such conviction or deferral and dismissal shall be considered to be otherwise dismissed for purposes of expungement.

Defendant with a disorder or disability; sealing of criminal history record information, etc.

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2023-02-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) (Y: 22 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (10-Y 4-N) (Y: 10 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-22	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2023-02-17	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2023-02-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2023-02-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-02-10	House	Read first time
2023-02-10	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-01	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (10-Y 4-N)
2023-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104302D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	392.12	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.2:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1303
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1303+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1303F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0143+SB1303
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0241SB1303+SB1303
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0333SB1303+SB1303
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0801V0231+SB1303