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that I point out in this letter. It is also possible,
however, that expungement will prove to have great appeal
and that thousands of expungement petitions will be
submitted to the courts. Because we have no way of
estimating the number of expungement petitions we might
receive in any given year, we were unable to give a
detailed reply to the request for a fiscal note when
asked by the Director of Fiscal Research. In our letter
to him dated December 21, 1973, we advised that we could
not supply an estimate of increased monetary or clerical
needs. We did point out, however, that our present staff
was operating at the limit of its capacity and we did not
see how these additional duties could be placed upon
them. No additional funds or positions were placed in
our budget in anticipation of the passage of this
measure. In fact, the Legislature cut $200,000.00 from
the wages and salaries portion of our budget, eliminating
any ability we might have had to hire temporary employees
to handle the expungement process.

The administrative judges of the District Court have
expressed to me their own apprehensions about our
inability to comply with the legislative mandate, if this
bill is signed into law, and the failure of our judges or
employees to comply with the provisions of the bill could
render them guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine
of not more than $1,000.00, or by imprisonment not to
exceed one year.

In view of all the foregoing, I feel it my duty to
respectfully to ask that you consider a veto of this bill
in its present form. If you were to follow that course,
I would be most willing to work with any interested group
of legislators or other persons in drafting an
expungement bill which would truly serve the needs of
persons unjustly arrested and yet which would not present
the same problems that I see existing in House Bill 122.

Thank you for your consideration of my views on this
matter.

Sincerely,

/s/ Robert F. Sweeney

House Bill No. 126 - Retail Sales Tax Exemptions
AN ACT concerning

Retail Sales Tax - Exemption
FOR the purpose of providing for an exemption from the