West Virginia Senate Bill 423 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-23 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to permit expungement of certain felony convictions. The bill establishes the amount of time after conviction of a felony before expungement may be sought. The bill creates exceptions. The bill clarifies that retirement or employment benefits lost due to the conviction may not be reinstated due to an expungement. The bill declares that information related to the conviction is to be kept confidential, accessible to certain officials to ensure that only one expungement may had per person. The bill declares that expungement does not preclude a person who has received an expungement from being subject to sentencing enhancements for second and subsequent violations. The bill declares that information in State Police database sufficient to prove existence of prior convictions. The bill establishes a fee to offset State Police administrative costs and to operate the Criminal Identification Bureau and other criminal justice services. The bill establishes a special revenue account in the State Treasury for funds received. The bill allows funds to not expire. The bill defines terms expands a sixty day time limit to ninety days.

Relating to expungement of certain felony convictions

Sen. Donald Cookman [D]

Sen. Ronald Miller [D]

Sen. Larry Edgell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-23	Senate	To Judiciary
2014-01-23	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2014-01-23	Senate	To Judiciary then Finance
2014-01-23	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2826 (Same As) 2014-01-09 - To House Energy
HB3154 (Similar To) 2014-01-09 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	3	11	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	11	26	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=423&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb423%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=423
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb423%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=423