FISCAL NOTE

House Bill 441 as introduced provides for the expungement of criminal records for convictions of non-violent misdemeanor offenses with certain conditions, which could increase the number of administrative filing fees, currently set at $300, collected and distributed as follows:

$75 to the State Judicial Administrative Fund;

$25 to the Department of Forensic Sciences;

$50 to the District Attorney’s Office;

$50 to the Clerk’s Office of the circuit court having jurisdiction over the matter;

$50 to the Public Safety Fund; and

$50 to the general fund of the county where the arresting law enforcement agency is located if the arrest was made by the sheriff’s office or the municipality or other entity or state agency funding the law enforcement activity if the arrest was made by another law enforcement agency.

Further this bill could increase the obligations of the Office of Attorney General, by an undetermined amount, to maintain a non-public index of expunged records and comply with the provisions of this bill.

In addition, this bill could increase receipts to the State General Fund and municipal general funds from fines; increase receipts to the State General Fund, county general funds, municipal general funds, and other funds to which court costs are deposited; and could increase the obligations of the State General Fund, district attorneys, and local jails by an undetermined amount dependent upon the number of persons charged with and convicted of the offenses provided by this bill and the penalties imposed.