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Committee adopts poverty-affidavit and arrest-record alignment amendments and passes HB 2655 out of committee
Summary
The committee amended HB 2655 to allow judges to waive municipal expungement fees via poverty affidavit and to align municipal arrest-expungement language with district court law; both amendments passed and the committee voted HB 2655 out favorably.
The Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice voted on amendments to HB 2655, a bill that ties municipal-court expungement to participation in specialty-court programs and successful completion.
Representative Carmichael moved an amendment authorizing judges to waive expungement fees by reviewing a poverty affidavit; the committee adopted that amendment by voice vote.…
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