Workgroup to Study Partial Expungement

Background

House Bill 1336, 2020/Chapter 31(Section 3), 2021, as amended by House Bill 882/Chapter 376, 2021 and Senate Bill 874/Chapter 377, 2021, established a Partial Expungement Workgroup to study and develop a plan and legislative recommendations for enabling the expungement of criminal charges that are currently not eligible for expungement under the “unit rule” (pursuant to § 10–107 of the Criminal Procedure Article). It also required the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to staff the workgroup, and required the workgroup to report its plan and legislative recommendations to the General Assembly by January 5, 2021. Furthermore, and with no further action required by the General Assembly, Section 3 of Chapter 31 would terminate on June 30, 2021.