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Committee adopts amendments and forwards cannabis expungement technical fixes to the floor
Summary
The committee adopted an author's amendment to Senate File 204 to fix drafting oversights in the 2023 cannabis expungement law, clarified how courts may seal multi-count records, and recommended the bill to pass and be referred to the Senate floor.
Senate File 204, a bill with technical changes to the cannabis expungement statute enacted in 2023, was amended and recommended to pass by the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee and re‑referred to the Senate floor.
Senator Umu Verbaten presented the bill and the author's amendment (the a5/a6 package). The sponsor said the changes were intended to capture certain cannabis offenses unintentionally omitted by the original drafting and to address a court…
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