HB2833 Summary

• Amends the Criminal Identification Act by modifying waiting periods for filing petitions to expunge or seal criminal records.

• Reduces the waiting period for expungement of records resulting from orders of supervision from 5 years to 2 years for specific vehicle code violations, and from 2 years to 1 year for other offenses.

• Reduces the waiting period for expungement of records resulting from qualified probation from 5 years to 3 years.

• Changes sealing eligibility timelines: allows immediate sealing for first-time offenders with no prior criminal convictions, and reduces the waiting period from 3 to 4 years to 2 years for those with prior criminal convictions.

• Reduces the waiting period for sealing conviction records (Class 4 felonies and certain drug/controlled substance offenses) from 4 years to 2 years after termination of the petitioner's last sentence.