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Sponsor pulls bill on sealing COVID‑era eviction records after extended committee questioning
Summary
Senate Bill 476 would have allowed courts to seal eviction records when a judge finds nonpayment resulted from pandemic‑related financial hardship; after extended debate about definitions, scope, judgments and landlord impacts the sponsor pulled the bill to revise its language.
Senator Tucker presented Senate Bill 476, a measure intended to allow tenants evicted for nonpayment caused by COVID‑19 financial hardship (evictions after March 1, 2020) to petition a court to have the eviction record sealed. Tucker described the proposal as narrow relief for tenants whose evictions were caused by pandemic‑related financial hardship so future landlords would not automatically reject them for a pandemic‑related eviction.
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