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Committee advances HB 297 to clarify expungement process, protect access to protective orders
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee voted to favorably recommend HB 297, a cleanup bill to last year's expungement overhaul, clarifying protective-order language and removing certain older DUI records from automatic expungement so they can be handled by petition.
Representative James Lisenby, sponsor of HB 297, told the Utah House Judiciary Committee the bill is a cleanup to the 2024 expungement overhaul and aims to fix remaining procedural issues.
"We passed HB 352, which was a major overhaul in the expungement area," Representative Lisenby said, and HB 297 "is a cleanup bill from last year." He told the committee the measure was developed with the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Bureau of Criminal Identification and the courts to resolve…
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