Senate fix tees up clean slate for final passage in House
Mark Pazniokas, CTmirror.org
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Sen. Gary Winfield, right, and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff talk about a compromise to the clean slate bill.Mark Pazniokas / CTmirror.org
With the unlikely marriage of two controversial issues Wednesday night, the Senate may have ensured final passage Thursday by the House of a groundbreaking “clean slate” bill expunging the criminal records of thousands of Connecticut residents.
The Senate voted unanimously to take a Republican bill that revisits elements of the police accountability law passed last summer and amend it with language that narrows the reach of the Democrats’ record erasure bill now stalled in the House.