SPONSOR: Parker
COMMITTEE ACTION: Voted "Do Pass with HCS" by the Standing Committee on Financial Institutions by a vote of 15 to 0. Voted "Do Pass" by the Standing Committee on Rules-Legislative by a vote of 10 to 2.
The following is a summary of the House Committee Substitute for HB 2967.
This bill creates in the State Treasury the "Missouri Expungement Fund", the funds of which will be used by the Office of State Courts Administrator, the Department of Public Safety, and the Information Technology Services Division within the Office of Administration on the statewide court automation system and the Missouri criminal history record information system for the purposes specified in the bill.
The following is a summary of the public testimony from the committee hearing. The testimony was based on the introduced version of the bill.
PROPONENTS: Supporters say that this bill is important to set forth the effort to provide funding to the entities involved in expunging records to get the technology needed to set up an automatic expungement system. This would streamline the process for an individual's record to be expunged.
Testifying in person for the bill were Representative Parker; and Eric Jennings, Judicial Conference of Missouri.
OPPONENTS: There was no opposition voiced to the committee.
Written testimony has been submitted for this bill. The full written testimony and witnesses testifying online can be found under Testimony on the bill page on the House website.
Statutes affected: