Salt Lake City: Republican Gov. Gary Herbert has signed legislation into law amending the state’s expungement laws.
House Bill 431, The ‘Clean Slate’ Act, creates a process for the automatic expungement and deletion of certain criminal convictions, including misdemeanor convictions for the possession of a controlled substance.
To be eligible for automatic expungement, one must have completed their sentence and possess no subsequent convictions for a period of five years.
According to reporting by the Salt Lake City Tribune, Utah will become only the second state in the nation to enact such a broad automatic expungement policy.
The new law takes effect on May 1, 2020.
For more information, contact Carly Wolf, NORML State Policies Coordinator, at (202) 483-5500 or visit NORML’s Legislative Action Center.