West Virginia House Bill 2657 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 22 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-22 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to expand eligibility for expungement to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies; define nonviolent felony, providing exceptions to eligibility and timing of filing a petition for expungement; create petition requirements and court procedure for evaluating preliminary and final orders of expungement for nonviolent felonies; provide limitations on preliminary orders of expungement; clarify disclosure requirements with respect to the information sealed pursuant to an order of expungement, including exemptions; and provide standard for inspection of sealed records.

West Virginia Second Chance Act

Del. Tim Miley [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-22	House	To House Judiciary
2017-02-22	House	Introduced in House
2017-02-22	House	To Judiciary
2017-02-22	House	Filed for introduction

HB2107 (Similar To) 2017-02-08 - To House Industry and Labor
HB2536 (Similar To) 2017-02-17 - To House Industry and Labor
SB366 (Similar To) 2017-02-21 - To Judiciary
SB76 (Similar To) 2017-05-23 - Chapter 56, Acts, Regular Session, 2017

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=2657&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2657%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=2657