Expunction

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate explanation incorrectly stated a reduction from ten years to fifteen years. The bill actually reduces the waiting period from fifteen years to ten years.

Reducing Time for Expunction of Illegal Voting

This bill changes the time required before someone can ask to have a record of illegal voting removed from fifteen years to ten years.

What This Bill Does

• Modifies Tennessee Code Annotated sections related to expunctions for illegal voting and registration.
• Requires this change to take effect on July 1, 2025.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who have been convicted of illegally voting in Tennessee
• Courts that handle requests for record clearance

Terms To Know

Expunction

The process of removing or erasing a criminal record.

Illegal Voting

Voting when you are not allowed to, such as voting in the wrong place or voting more than once.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is unclear how many people will be affected by this change.
• The bill does not specify what happens if someone applies for expunction before the ten-year period ends.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

SENATE BILL 1224
By Oliver

HOUSE BILL 450
By Glynn

HB0450
001054
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2,
Chapter 19 and Title 40, Chapter 32, relative to
expunction.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-32-101(m)(1)(A), is amended by
deleting "fifteen (15) years" and substituting "ten (10) years".
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.