All Roll Calls
Yes: 187 • No: 0
UtahH.B. 2972025 General SessionHouseWALLET
Expungement Amendments
Sponsored By: Tiara Auxier (Republican)
Signed by Governor
JuvenilesGovernment RecordsCriminal ProcedureCrimesJudicial OperationsJuvenile JusticeLaw Enforcement and Criminal JusticeGovernment Operations (State Issues)Protective Orders/Stalking InjuctionsExpungement
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
More traffic records qualify for sealing
The law expands which traffic cases count as traffic offenses under Utah’s record-sealing rules. It includes specified infractions and class C misdemeanors involving motor vehicles and vehicle financial responsibility. Driving without required insurance or other financial security, and giving false proof of that security, remain excluded. Other listed exclusions also remain.
Tighter limits on sealing criminal records
Beginning May 7, 2025, convictions requiring sex, kidnap, or child abuse offender registration when applying cannot receive an expungement certificate. An active civil or criminal protective order, or criminal stalking injunction, also blocks a certificate. Specified DUI cases under law codified before February 2, 2005, cannot use automatic expungement, including convictions and pleas held in abeyance. A regular or special certificate must be valid when the petition is filed for the court to use it. Utah’s Bureau of Criminal Identification can challenge orders covering convictions or cases dismissed after pleas held in abeyance; courts must cancel orders they find were ineligible when issued.
Sealed case facts inform protective orders
Beginning May 7, 2025, courts deciding civil protective orders can consider underlying facts even when related records are expunged. These include facts about the respondent’s arrest, investigation, detention, charges, or conviction. This helps people seeking protection present relevant facts, but limits what record sealing shields in these proceedings.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Tiara Auxier
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Brady Brammer
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/7/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
Yes: 28 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/28/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
House vote • 2/7/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 73 • No: 0
House vote • 2/7/2025
House/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/7/2025
House/ motion to reconsider
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/7/2025
House/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/7/2025
House/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/7/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 72 • No: 0
House vote • 1/29/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 9 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ motion to reconsider
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/25/2025House/ to Governor
3/17/2025HouseHouse/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/17/2025HouseHouse/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/13/2025HouseEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/13/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/11/2025Bill Received from House for Enrolling
3/11/2025House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
3/7/2025HouseSenate/ to House
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ signed by President/ returned to House
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
3/5/2025SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
3/3/2025SenateSenate/ committee report favorable
3/3/2025SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/28/2025SenateSenate/ to standing committee
2/26/2025SenateSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
2/7/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
2/7/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/7/2025HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
2/7/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/13/2025
Substitute #1
2/6/2025
Introduced
1/22/2025