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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 620

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Relating to: removing from records and from the Consolidated Court Automation Programs Internet site a criminal conviction if the person who was convicted has been pardoned.

Crime and criminals Firearms and dangerous weapons Pardon Parochial and private educational institutions State courts, director of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the director of state courts maintains the Consolidated

Court Automation Programs (CCAP), which is a system containing information

about cases filed in the circuit courts that is available for free on an Internet site.

CCAP allows a user to enter a person's name into a search function on the Internet

site to retrieve information about every criminal and civil case involving the person.

Under this bill, if a person is convicted of a criminal offense but is pardoned, the

director of state courts must remove all findings, orders, and charges that relate to

the person's conviction from the person's record and from CCAP. This requirement

does not apply, however, if the pardon is conditional and the person violates any of

the conditions.

Also under current law, a pardoned offense, if the pardon was granted on

grounds other than innocence, is counted toward a determination of a habitual

criminal, a status that permits a sentencing court to increase the maximum term of

imprisonment for any subsequent crime that the person commits. Under this bill,

a pardoned crime no longer counts when calculating whether the person is a habitual

criminal. Also, this bill explicitly states that, if a person who is prohibited from

possessing a firearm due only to the commission of a crime receives a pardon for that

crime, he or she may possess a firearm.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Harris (D) , L. Taylor (D)

11 cosponsors

Barnes (D) , Goyke (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Johnson (D) , Milroy (D) , Pasch (D) , Sinicki (D) , Wachs (D) , Wright (D) , Young (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 20, 2014 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Harris and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Goyke, Johnson, Pasch, Young, Milroy, Hesselbein, Wachs, Wright, Barnes, Sinicki and Zamarripa

  2. Feb 20, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Labor

  3. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1