2025 bills / H.B. 297
H.B. 297 Expungement Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes Utah's expungement (record-clearing) rules, including which offenses are excluded from automatic expungement and when a court can grant expungement based on the timing of an eligibility certificate. It also changes where expungement petitions are filed for adult and juvenile records, lets the Bureau of Criminal Identification ask a court to undo an automatic expungement in certain cases, and adjusts how sex offender registration and protective orders affect eligibility.
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Official description
- defines terms for expungement
- allows the Department of Public Safety to make rules regarding the procedure for notifying the Bureau of Criminal Identification of an order of expungement
- modifies the list of offenses that are not eligible for automatic expungement
- allows the Bureau of Criminal Identification to request the vacation of an order for automatic expungement in certain circumstances
- modifies the requirements for a certificate of eligibility to address registration as a sex offender, kidnap offender, or child abuse offender or a protective order or criminal stalking injunction in effect against the individual
- modifies venue for a petition seeking expungement of criminal records
- clarifies that a certificate of eligibility has to be valid at the time that the petition for expungement was filed for a court to grant expungement
- addresses the effect of an expungement on a civil protective order
- modifies venue for a petition seeking expungement of juvenile records
- includes a coordination clause to address a technical conflict if this bill and S.B. 41, Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry Amendments, both pass and become law
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 297 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 297 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 29, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how