Bill > HB0337

This bill proposes the following key provisions: 1. It amends the law to allow the Bureau of Criminal Identification to issue a certificate of eligibility for expungement without requiring payment of the issuance fee if the petitioner indicates on the application that they reasonably believe the fee to file the expungement petition will be waived by the court because the petitioner is indigent. 2. If the bureau issues a certificate of eligibility without requiring the issuance fee, it must charge the fee upon receipt of the expungement order, unless the order indicates the petition filing fee was waived because the petitioner is indigent. 3. The bureau cannot charge the issuance fee solely on the grounds that the validity of the certificate has expired, if it was originally issued without requiring the fee. 4. The bill also requires the court's expungement order to indicate whether the petitioner's request to waive the filing fee due to indigence was granted or denied. The overall purpose of this bill is to provide fee waivers for the certificate of eligibility and petition filing processes for individuals seeking expungement who are found to be indigent.

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