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Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF3112

Relating to public safety; recodifying and restructuring the law on expungements
of criminal records; providing for the grounds and procedures for expungement of
criminal records under certain applicable laws; limiting the remedy available to
a court sealing the records and prohibiting the disclosure or opening except
under court order or statutory authority; specifying certain grounds for order;
requiring the filing of a petition to expunge criminal records, specifying
certain fee and petition content requirements, requiring service of petition and
proposed order, specifying certain hearing requirements, providing for
maintenance of records; specifying certain orders concerning crimes of violence;
specifying certain effect and limitations of order; requiring distribution of
expungement orders by the court administrator; providing for state of order and
appeal; specifying certain factors to be considered for issuing an expungement
order and certain duties and extent of order of the court; regulating business
screening services, specifying certain requirements for removal of data on
expunged records and certain corrections requirements under certain conditions,
imposing penalties for violations and providing for remedies; exempting
employers or prospective employers from duty to discover expunged records;
specifying certain instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain
existing provisions regulating criminal records expungement
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