republic-os/legislation/us/states/vt/2017-2018/h-171.md

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Bill	An act relating to expungement	An act relating to expungement	us/states/vt	Vermont General Assembly	2017-2018	H. 171	Vermont H. 171 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Maxine Grad	5	44	3	2017-02-01	2017-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/59d82df6-a2c5-4bbf-9576-1c1517570a13	http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2018/411	211ef62d01ae4bf2174a6939b2fdd25bfea3d67682bd13055c43efabb7922281	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-vt

Vermont H. 171 (2017-2018) — An act relating to expungement

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act Summary (committee substitute) — source
3. As Enacted (committee substitute) — source
4. Official (committee substitute) — source
5. Unofficial (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Roll Call Results Failed -- Needed 72 of 142 to Pass -- Yeas = 61, Nays = 81 — 61–81 (fail) · legislature
• Roll Call Results Passed -- Needed 71 of 140 to Pass -- Yeas = 89, Nays = 51 — 89–51 (pass) · legislature
• Roll Call Results Failed -- Needed 71 of 141 to Pass -- Yeas = 55, Nays = 86 — 55–86 (fail) · legislature

Sponsors

• Maxine Grad — primary (person)
• Charles "Chip" Conquest — cosponsor (person)
• Less… — cosponsor (person)
• Martin LaLonde — cosponsor (person)
• Ruqaiyah "Kiah" Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Burditt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-01 Read First Time and Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
• 2017-03-01 Read Second Time
• 2017-03-01 Rep. Lalonde of South Burlington reported for the committee on Judiciary
• 2017-03-01 Report of Committee on Judiciary agreed to.
• 2017-03-01 Third Reading Ordered
• 2017-03-02 Rep. Murphy of Fairfax and Donahue of Northfield moved to amend the bill
• 2017-03-02 Which was disagreed to
• 2017-03-02 Rep. Browning of Arlington moved to amend the bill
• 2017-03-02 Rep. Lucke of Hartford asked that the question be divided
• 2017-03-02 Roll Call Results Failed -- Needed 71 of 141 to Pass -- Yeas = 55, Nays = 86
• 2017-03-02 First Instance of amendment disagreed to
• 2017-03-02 Roll Call Results Failed -- Needed 72 of 142 to Pass -- Yeas = 61, Nays = 81
• 2017-03-02 Second instance of amendment disagreed to
• 2017-03-02 Read Third time
• 2017-03-02 Roll Call Results Passed -- Needed 71 of 140 to Pass -- Yeas = 89, Nays = 51
• 2017-03-02 Passed passage
• 2017-03-03 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2017-04-04 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Judiciary
• 2017-04-05 New Business/Second Reading
• 2017-04-05 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Judiciary
• 2017-04-06 Unfinished Business/Second Reading
• 2017-04-06 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Judiciary
• 2017-04-07 New Business/Third Reading
• 2017-04-06 Read 2nd time, reported favorably with proposal of amendment by Senator Benning for Committee on Judiciary
• 2017-04-06 Proposal of amendment by Committee on Judiciary agreed to
• 2017-04-06 3rd reading ordered
• 2017-04-07 Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment passage
• 2017-04-11 Senate Message, passed in Concurrence with proposal of amendment
• 2017-04-13 Senate Proposal of Amendment considered
• 2017-04-13 Senate Proposal of Amendment not concurred in and Committee of Conference requested upon motion of Rep. Lalonde of South Burlington
• 2017-04-13 Speaker appointed Lalonde of South Burlington, Conquest of Newbury and Willhoit of St. Johnsbury as members of the Committee of Conference on the part of the House
• 2017-04-14 House message House refused to concur in Senate proposal of amendment & requested Conference Committee; House Conference Committee members appointed
• 2017-04-20 Committee of Conference appointed: Senators Nitka, Sears, and Benning
• 2017-05-03 Committee of Conference Report
• 2017-05-04 New Business/Committee of Conference Report
• 2017-05-04 Committee of Conference report submitted by Senator Sears for Committee, text
• 2017-05-04 Committee of Conference report adopted
• 2017-05-04 Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Ashe
• 2017-05-05 Rules Suspended and Taken up for Immediate Consideration as moved by Rep. Savage of Swanton
• 2017-05-05 Committee of Conference report adopted (House bill) passage
• 2017-05-16 House message House adopted Conference Committee report
• 2017-05-30 Delivered to the Governor on May 30, 2017 passage
• 2017-06-05 Signed by Governor on June 5, 2017 executive-signature
• 2017-06-05 House message: Governor approved bill on June 5, 2017

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59d82df6-a2c5-4bbf-9576-1c1517570a13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).