Victim of human trafficking; petition for vacatur/expungement of convictions & police/court records.
Summary
Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictionsand police and court records of victims of human trafficking.Allows any person who was a victim of human trafficking at the timeof an offense that led to a criminal charge or conviction of certaincrimes to petition the court to vacate such conviction and expungethe police and court records related to such conviction or to expungethe police and court records related to such charge. The bill provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a person's participationin an offense was a result of having been a victim of human traffickingif there is official documentation, defined in the bill, of the petitioner'sstatus as a victim of human trafficking at the time of the offense.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Dec 30, 2019
Last action Dec 4, 2020
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Dec 30, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Dec 30, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103429D
lower
1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Steve E. Heretick
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Clint Jenkins
DDemocratic
Co
Ibraheem S. Samirah
DDemocratic
Co
JM
Joe Morrissey
DDemocratic
Co
Joseph C. Lindsey
DDemocratic
Co
Karrie Delaney
DDemocratic
Co
Kathleen Murphy
DDemocratic
Co
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
Co
Mark H. Levine
DDemocratic
Co
Mark L. Cole
RRepublican
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