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Judiciary committee clears bill to remove five‑year wait and fee for sealing some nonviolent felony records

JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE · March 27, 2019
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Summary

House Bill 18-31, sponsored by Representative Boyd, would remove the five-year wait to seal nonviolent felony records and eliminate a $50 sealing fee; prosecutors and the sponsor said the changes would speed reentry into the workforce while preserving existing exceptions for licensing and law-enforcement access.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to report House Bill 18-31, a measure to remove barriers to sealing some nonviolent felony records.

Representative Boyd said the bill does three things: it expresses legislative intent to study record-sealing processes; it removes the five‑year lookback for nonviolent felonies so sealing may occur immediately after sentence completion and…

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