Existing law does not authorize the criminal record related to a charge to be sealed or expunged if the person is found not guilty of a crime or if the charges are dismissed or for a conviction record to be sealed or expunged.
This bill would authorize a person charged or convicted of certain felony or misdemeanor criminal offenses, a violation, or a traffic violation to petition the court in which the charges where filed or in which the conviction occurred to have his or her records expunged, including, but not limited to, arrest records, fingerprints, photographs, or index references in documentary or electronic form, relating to the arrest or charge, or both, and conviction in certain instances.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
Judiciary second Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 30 Favorable from Judiciary with 2 amendments
Judiciary first Amendment Offered
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 2 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Engrossed
Bedford Table Bedford to reconsider
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 447
Sanford motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 446
Sanford Amendment Offered
Taylor motion to Adopt lost Roll Call 445
Taylor Amendment Offered
Sanford motion to Table adopted Voice Vote
Sanford Amendment Offered
Bedford motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 444
Bedford first Substitute Offered
Bedford motion to Table adopted Voice Vote
Judiciary Amendment Offered
Bedford motion to Table adopted Roll Call 443
Judiciary Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 2 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature