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Judiciary committee amends and advances bills on eviction records, pretrial release, summonses and more
Summary
During a long working session the Committee on Judiciary adopted a large amendment to an eviction-records bill, amended and passed a package of criminal-justice measures tightening pretrial release and secured-bond rules, and passed bills on TNVR and Open Records Act renewals.
The House Committee on Judiciary moved several working bills through amendment and toward passage in a prolonged session that included lengthy debate over pretrial detention, bond amounts and eviction-record expungement.
Eviction records (HB 23-57): a Williams balloon amendment to HB 23-57 significantly revised sealing and expungement rules for eviction actions governed by the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act. The amendment clarifies who may access sealed records (court staff, parties and attorneys, or others with a court order and a specified noncommercial purpose), extends the automatic-expungement timing to three years in many cases, and adds a Judicial Council form requirement. The committee adopted the Williams…
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