West Virginia House Bill 2923 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Introduced on January 28 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-28 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to reduce the time in which to petition for expungement of criminal convictions of persons for certain offenses committed between the ages of eighteen and twenty- two years of age, which offenses are otherwise considered "status" offenses involving purchase, possession or consumption of alcoholic liquors, wine or beer. The bill reduces the time for a petition from one year to six months after the conviction, completion of any sentence of incarceration or probation, whichever is later in time.

Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions

Sen. Michael Caputo [D]	Del. Allen Evans [R]	Del. Richard Iaquinta [D]	Del. Linda Longstreth [D]
Del. Timothy Manchin [D]	Del. Charlene Marshall [D]	Del. Linda Phillips [D]	Del. Douglas Reynolds [D]
Del. Josh Stowers [D]	Del. Scott Varner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-28		To House Judiciary
2011-01-28		Introduced in House
2011-01-28		To Judiciary
2011-01-28		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	11	26	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2923&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2923%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2923