SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A monumental bill to automatically seal records for people convicted of nonviolent felonies awaits Gov. JB Pritzker's approval. Democrats have spent years negotiating the Clean Slate Act with grassroots advocates and law enforcement.

The proposal could allow felony convictions currently eligible for expungement to be automatically sealed by a circuit court judge or the Illinois State Police.

State lawmakers passed legislation in 2017 to allow certain offenders with nonviolent felony convictions to apply for expungement. However, each of the state's 102 counties have addressed the record sealing process differently.

"I watched individuals take more than a year to get to a place when they start the process to the end of it," said House Assistant Majority Leade

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