GA96HB67 96 HB 67 CRIM ID-EXPUNGE-20 YRS Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of the Act to the contrary and cumulative with any rights to expungement or sealing of criminal records, whenever a person has been convicted of or placed on supervision for an offense, other than a capital offense, or for a violation of an ordinance of a unit of local government and 20 years has elapsed since the completion of the person's sentence or term of supervision and the person has not been convicted of or placed on supervision for any misdemeanor or felony offense or misdemeanor ordinance violation within such period, he or she may, upon verified petition to the chief judge of the circuit where the person had been convicted, any judge of the circuit designated by the Chief Judge, or in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the presiding trial judge at the defendant's trial, have a court order entered expunging the record of arrest from the official records of the arresting authority and order that the records of the clerk of the circuit court and the Department of State Police be sealed until further order of the court upon good cause shown or as otherwise provided by law, and the name of the defendant obliterated from the official index requested to be kept by the circuit court clerk in connection with the arrest and conviction for the offense for which he had been charged, but the order shall not affect any index issued by the circuit court clerk before the entry of the order. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=67&GAID=10&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=40047&SessionID=76&GA=96 2009-04-02 00:00:00 House Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Constance A. Howard 0 16 2009-04-02 00:00:00 House Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti 0 14 2009-04-01 00:00:00 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 007-000-000 0 13 HJUB 2009-04-01 00:00:00 House Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Standard Debate 0 12 2009-04-01 00:00:00 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee 0 10 HJUB 2009-04-01 00:00:00 House Second Reading - Standard Debate 1 11 2009-03-31 00:00:00 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee 0 9 HRUL 2009-03-05 00:00:00 House Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Standard Debate 0 7 2009-03-31 00:00:00 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. LaShawn K. Ford 0 8 2009-03-05 00:00:00 House Do Pass as Amended / Standard Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 004-003-000 0 6 HJUB 2009-03-05 00:00:00 House House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; by Voice Vote 0 5 HJUB 2009-03-05 00:00:00 House House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee 0 4 HJUB 2009-04-02 00:00:00 House Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Annazette Collins 0 15 2009-02-04 00:00:00 House Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee 0 3 HJUB 2009-01-14 00:00:00 House Referred to Rules Committee 0 2 HRUL 2009-01-14 00:00:00 House First Reading 1 1 2009-01-08 00:00:00 House Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. LaShawn K. Ford 0 0 2009-04-03 00:00:00 House Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1 17 HRUL AnnazetteCollins House Chief Co-Sponsor DennisMReboletti House Chief Co-Sponsor LaShawnKFord House Chief Sponsor ConstanceAHoward House Chief Co-Sponsor