Bill Text: HI HB301 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Expungement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [HB301 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB301-Introduced.html
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to expungement.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 286-245, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d) The state judiciary and the examiner of drivers shall make available to the greatest extent possible information from any driver's record required for enforcement of this section to the users designated in subsection (f) or their authorized agent, within ten days of:
(1) Receiving the conviction or disqualification information from another state; or
(2) Receiving the conviction information
for a violation occurring in this State[.];
provided
that the information from any driver's record shall not include any traffic
citation that has been dismissed."
SECTION 2. Section 831-3.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:
"(f) [Any person for whom an
expungement order has been entered may request in writing that the] The
court shall seal or otherwise remove from the judiciary's publicly
accessible electronic databases all judiciary files and other information
pertaining to the applicable arrest or case [from the judiciary's publicly
accessible electronic databases.] of any person for whom an expungement
order has been entered. The court
shall make good faith diligent efforts to seal or otherwise remove the
applicable files and information within a reasonable time."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Expungement; Dismissed Traffic Citations; Driver's Record; Public Record; Abstract Report; Background Check; Judiciary; Examiner of Drivers
Description:
Requires the court to automatically seal or remove from the Judiciary's publicly accessible database any information relevant to the arrest or case of a person for whom an expungement order has been entered. Requires the Judiciary and the Examiner of Drivers to no longer include dismissed traffic citations in public driver's records.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
