West Virginia House Bill 2532 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-17 - To House Industry and Labor
Pending: House Industry and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create the Second Chance for Employment Act. The bill provides a procedure for the expungement of certain nonviolent felony convictions and prohibits the expungement of certain felony convictions, including those causing serious injury, those involving deadly weapons, certain assaults and batteries, domestic violence and sexual offenses. The bill provides that no person is required to disclose such conviction unless asked by an employer or potential employer.

Allowing the expungement of certain felony convictions

Del. Mike Pushkin [D]	Del. Charlotte Lane [R]	Del. Pat McGeehan [R]	Del. Phillip Isner [D]
Del. Sean Hornbuckle [D]	Del. Chad Lovejoy [D]	Del. Michael Brewer [D]	Del. Shawn Fluharty [D]
Del. Andrew Byrd [D]	Del. Guy Ward [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-17	House	To House Industry and Labor
2017-02-17	House	Introduced in House
2017-02-17	House	To Industry and Labor then Judiciary
2017-02-17	House	Filed for introduction

HB2107 (Similar To) 2017-02-08 - To House Industry and Labor
SB510 (Similar To) 2017-03-03 - To Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	11	26	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2532&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2532%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=2532