---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires expunction of certain juvenile records upon motion; requires an adjudicating court to inform a child of the need to file a motion for expunction of a juvenile record; requires the administrative office of the courts to create a motion that can be completed by a child; requires juvenile court clerks to make the model expunction motion available to all children. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-153."
description: "Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires expunction of certain juvenile records upon motion; requires an adjudicating court to inform a child of the need to file a motion for expunction of a juvenile record; requires the administrative office of the courts to create a motion that can be completed by a child; requires juvenile court clerks to make the model expunction motion available to all children. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-153."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "SB 1243"
citation: "Tennessee SB 1243 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Juvenile"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curcio", "Norris"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71801826-01d5-4ec5-854a-059f6670cccd"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1243&GA=110"
source_hash: "54aa262a3c66540014e4c9035f0523b6b5b45108d672262a7d363180b0e09cbc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee SB 1243 (110) — Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires expunction of certain juvenile records upon motion; requires an adjudicating court to inform a child of the need to file a motion for expunction of a juvenile record; requires the administrative office of the courts to create a motion that can be completed by a child; requires juvenile court clerks to make the model expunction motion available to all children. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-153.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/SB1243.pdf)

## Votes

- SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 3/28/2017 Passed (1) — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curcio — primary (person)
- Norris — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-07** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** P2C, ref. to Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
- **2017-02-15** Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 2/21/2017
- **2017-02-15** Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 3/1/2017
- **2017-02-28** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-01** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-08** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/9/2017
- **2017-03-09** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/16/2017
- **2017-03-16** Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
- **2017-03-16** Passed H., as am., Ayes 90, Nays 0, PNV 1 `passage`
- **2017-03-16** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-16** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0023) `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Received from House, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-03-22** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/28/2017
- **2017-03-28** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2017-03-30** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 4/3/2017
- **2017-04-03** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-04-03** Companion House Bill substituted
- **2017-04-03** Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 31, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0248)
- **2017-04-03** Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
- **2017-04-10** H. Placed on Message Calendar for 4/13/2017
- **2017-04-13** Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
- **2017-04-13** H. concurred in S. am. no. 1 Ayes 90, Nays 0 PNV 0 HB0578
- **2017-04-13** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-04-17** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Transmitted to Governor for his action. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-18** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 197
- **2017-05-03** Pub. Ch. 197
- **2017-05-03** Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71801826-01d5-4ec5-854a-059f6670cccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).