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MO SB307
Bill
Status
1/26/2015
Primary Sponsor
Shalonn Curls
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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