Virginia Senate Bill 194 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-12-02 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Expungement of police and court records. Provides that a court that enters a nolle prosequi for a criminal charge shall, upon motion of the person charged, enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charge. The bill also provides that a person whose charge is expunged because a nolle prosequi is taken or the charge is dismissed because the person arrested or charged was not the person named in the summons, warrant, indictment, or presentment shall not be required to pay any costs associated with the expungement.

Police and court records; expungement of records.

Sen. Louise Lucas [D]

2016-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2017 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-12-02	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-02-03	Senate	Continued to 2017 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2016-02-03	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 16105104D-S1
2016-01-04	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-04	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102034D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB194
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB194+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB194S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03C0174+SB0194