Marijuana; expungement of offenses, civil penalty.

Expungement of offenses civil penalty. Provides for the automatic sealing of misdemeanor marijuana offensesand the petition-based sealing for certain felony marijuana offenses.The bill requires a business screening service, defined in the bill,to destroy all expunged records, as defined in the bill, and to followreasonable procedures to ensure that it does not maintain or sellexpunged records. The bill also provides that any petition for expungementshall be kept under seal and that an indigent person may file a petitionfor expungement without the payment of fees and costs and can request court-appointed counsel, who shall be paid from the Sealing FeeFund. The bill has staggered delayed effective dates in order todevelop systems for implementing the sealing provisions of the bill.