1. A. For purposes of this section and Section 4 of this act:

   1. 1. “Clean slate eligible record” means a record arising on or after January 1, 1980, where each offense listed within the record meets one of the following criteria:

      1. a. records described in paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 15 of subsection A of Section 18 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes,
      2. b. records described in paragraph 5 of subsection A of Section 18 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes where the prosecuting agency has declined to file charges and the record is an Oklahoma single-source record,
      3. c. records described in paragraphs 7 or 8 of subsection A of Section 18 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes where the record is an Oklahoma single-source record,
      4. d. the person was convicted of a felony offense pursuant to paragraph 1 of subsection A of Section 2-402 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the person is not currently serving a sentence for a crime in this state, at least five (5) years have passed since the end of the last felony or misdemeanor sentence, and the record is a single-source record, or
      5. e. the person was convicted of a misdemeanor offense, the person has not been convicted of a felony, no felony or misdemeanor charges are pending against the person, five(5) years have passed since the end of the last misdemeanor sentence, and the record is a single-source record;
   2. 2. “Expungement” means the sealing of criminal records, as well as any public civil record, involving actions brought by and against the State of Oklahoma arising from the same arrest, transaction or occurrence, including court records. A fully sealed expunged record shall not be available to the public or to law enforcement. Such records may be retained in the state criminal history repository but shall only be accessible to designated employees of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for research and statistical purposes. A partially sealed expunged record shall not be available to the public but shall be available to law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes; and
   3. 3. “Single-source record” means a criminal history record from this state that consists of an Oklahoma arrest record only. A single-source record shall not contain any arrest from another state, a federal arrest, or an entry into the National Sex Offender Registry or a National Crime Information Center (NCIC) wanted/warrant entry.
2. B. Beginning on the effective date of this act and subject to the availability of funds, individuals with clean slate eligible records shall be eligible to have their records sealed without filing a court petition.
3. C. For purposes of determining if the waiting periods set forth in paragraph 1 of subsection A of this section have been met, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall only consider records in its possession and shall deem sentences to have ended based on the imposed sentence length information in its possession.
4. D. Records expunged pursuant to this section shall be partially sealed so that such records are not available to the public but remain available to law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes.
5. E. Records expunged pursuant to this section shall be admissible in any subsequent criminal prosecution to prove the existence of a prior conviction or prior deferred judgment without the necessity of a court order requesting the unsealing of the records. Records expunged pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection A of Section 18 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes may also include the sealing of Pardon and Parole Board records related to an application for a pardon. Such records shall be sealed to the public but not to the Pardon and Parole Board.

Laws 2026, SB 2030, c. 282, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 2026.