HB 268

  • Virginia House Bill
  • 2020 Regular Session
  • Introduced in House Dec 30, 2019
  • House
  • Senate
  • Governor

Victim of human trafficking; petition for vacatur/expungement of convictions & police/court records.

Abstract

Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictionsand police and court records of victims of human trafficking.Allows any person who was a victim of human trafficking at the timeof an offense that led to a criminal charge or conviction of certaincrimes to petition the court to vacate such conviction and expungethe police and court records related to such conviction or to expungethe police and court records related to such charge. The bill provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a person's participationin an offense was a result of having been a victim of human traffickingif there is official documentation, defined in the bill, of the petitioner'sstatus as a victim of human trafficking at the time of the offense.

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Jan 31, 2020

House

Continued to 2021 in Courts of Justice

Jan 23, 2020

House

Impact statement from DPB (HB268)

Dec 30, 2019

House

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103429D

House

Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

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Impact statement from DPB (HB268) HTML

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