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PRINTER'S NO. 976
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 875
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY LANGERHOLC, BAKER, DUSH, ARGALL, STEFANO, J. WARD
AND VOGEL, JUNE 23, 2025
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 23, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 61 (Prisons and
Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in
criminal history record information, further providing for
clean slate limited access; in motivational boot camp,
further providing for definitions, for selection of inmate
participants, for motivational boot camp program, for
procedure for selection of participant in motivational boot
camp program, for completion of motivational boot camp
program and for evaluation; in State drug treatment program,
further providing for definitions; and, in miscellaneous
provisions, providing for report on incarcerated individuals
with certain health conditions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 9122.2(b)(1) of Title 18 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and subsections
(a) and (b) are amended by adding paragraphs to read:
§ 9122.2. Clean slate limited access.
(a) General rule.--The following shall be subject to limited
access:
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(1.2) Subject to whether a court has vacated an order
for limited access under section 9122.4 (relating to order to
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vacate order for limited access), criminal history record
information pertaining to a conviction that rendered an
individual eligible for the motivational boot camp program
under 61 Pa.C.S. § 3905 (relating to m otivational boot camp
program ), if a person successfully completed the motivational
boot camp program in accordance with 61 Pa.C.S. § 3907
(relating to c ompletion of motivational boot camp program ),
for three years following program completion for misdemeanor
offenses and has been free of conviction for any offense
punishable by imprisonment for one or more years and if
payment of all court-ordered restitution has occurred. Upon
payment of all court-ordered restitution, the person whose
criminal history record information is subject to limited
access under this paragraph shall also pay the fee previously
authorized to carry out the limited access and clean slate
limited access provisions.
(1.3) Subject to whether a court has vacated an order
for limited access under section 9122.4, criminal history
record information pertaining to a conviction that rendered
an individual eligible for the motivational boot camp program
under 61 Pa.C.S. § 3905, if a person successfully completed
the motivational boot camp program in accordance with 61
Pa.C.S. § 3907, and for five years following program
completion for felony offenses has been free of conviction
for any offense punishable by imprisonment for one or more
years and if payment of all court-ordered restitution has
occurred. Upon payment of all court-ordered restitution, the
person whose criminal history record information is subject
to limited access under this paragraph shall also pay the fee
previously authorized to carry out the limited access and
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clean slate limited access provisions.
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(b) Procedures.--
(1) On a monthly basis, the Administrative Office of
Pennsylvania Courts shall transmit to the Pennsylvania State
Police central repository the record of any conviction
eligible for limited access under subsection (a)(1), (1.2) or
(1.3).
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(6) Within 30 days of a person becoming eligible under
subsection (a)(1.2) or (1.3), the Department of Corrections
shall certify to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania
Courts the person's successful completion of the motivational
boot camp program.
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Section 2. The definition of "eligible inmate" in section
3903 of Title 61 is amended to read:
§ 3903. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
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"Eligible inmate." [A person sentenced to a term of
confinement under the jurisdiction of the Department of
Corrections who is serving a term of confinement, the minimum of
which is not more than two years and the maximum of which is
five years or less, or an inmate who is serving a term of
confinement, the minimum of which is not more than three years
where that inmate is within two years of completing his minimum
term, and who has not reached 40 years of age at the time he is
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approved for participation in the motivational boot camp
program. The term shall not include any inmate who is subject to
a sentence the calculation of which included an enhancement for
the use of a deadly weapon as defined pursuant to the sentencing
guidelines promulgated by the Pennsylv