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MO SB307

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/26/2015

Primary Sponsor

Shalonn Curls

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Origin

Senate

2015 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands expungement eligibility to include any infraction, municipal offense, misdemeanor, or felony prosecuted in Missouri courts, replacing the previous limited list of specific eligible offenses

  • Reduces waiting periods for expungement petitions from 20 years to 10 years for felonies, and from 10 years to 5 years for misdemeanors, municipal offenses, and infractions

  • Excludes three categories from expungement eligibility: offenses involving weapons use or possession, offenses involving forcible compulsion/physical injury/death, and offenses requiring sex offender registration

  • Removes bad check, fraudulent payment stoppage, and credit/debit device fraud offenses from the previous list of specifically eligible crimes, replacing them with the broader eligibility criteria

  • Maintains existing requirements that petitioners must have completed their sentence/probation/parole, have no subsequent convictions during the waiting period, and have paid all court-ordered restitution

Legislative Description

Expands the crimes eligible for expungement and modifies the time period a person must wait before being eligible to petition for expungement

Last Action

Bill Combined w/(SCS SBs 451, 307, 100 & 165)

4/9/2015

Committee Referrals

Judiciary And Civil And Criminal Jurisprudence2/12/2015

Full Bill Text

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