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1 State of Arkansas As Engrossed: S3/20/25
2 95th General Assembly
A Bill
3 Regular Session, 2025 SENATE BILL 487
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5 By: Senator Irvin
6 By: Representative L. Johnson
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8 For An Act To Be Entitled
9 AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR
10 EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RECORDS; AND FOR
11 OTHER PURPOSES.
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15 TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE DESTRUCTION OR
16 EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
17 RECORDS.
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19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
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21 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code � 9-27-309(b), concerning expungement of
22 delinquency adjudications under the Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989, is
23 amended to read as follows:
24 (b)(1)(A) Records of delinquency adjudications for a felony involving
25 violence as defined under � 5-4-501 shall be kept for ten (10) years after
26 the last adjudication of delinquency or the date of a plea of guilty or nolo
27 contendere or a finding of guilt as an adult.
28 (B) Thereafter they may be expunged.
29 (2) Records of all other delinquency adjudications shall be
30 expunged upon the individual's twenty-first birthday.
31 (2)(3) The court may expunge other juvenile records at any time
32 and shall expunge all the records of a juvenile upon his or her twenty-first
33 birthday, in other types of delinquency, dependency-neglect, or families in
34 need of services cases.
35 (3)(4) For purposes of this section, "expunge" means to destroy
36 seal as defined in � 16-90-1404.
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