HB226 - Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment and Eliminate Recidivism (REDEEMER) Act

• Expands eligibility for record expungement to include convictions of misdemeanor offenses, traffic violations, municipal ordinance violations, and certain felony offenses under specified conditions.

• Allows expungement of misdemeanor convictions after 3 years of completed probation/parole and payment of all fines, costs, and restitution, provided the conviction is not violent, a sex offense, involves moral turpitude, or is a serious traffic offense.

• Permits expungement of felony convictions (except violent offenses) upon dismissal with prejudice, no-bill, acquittal, nolle prosequi, or after 5 years without refiling, provided no other felony or misdemeanor convictions occur during that period.

• Establishes a $300 non-waivable administrative filing fee distributed to state judicial fund, forensic sciences, district attorney, court clerk, public safety fund, and county law enforcement.

• Effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.