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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CERTAIN CRIMES."
+description: "This bill permits judges to utilize their discretion in determining whether a juvenile charged with possession of a firearm during commission of a felony should be transferred back to Family Court or remain in Superior Court. Prior to 2017, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony was only one of five criminal charges where judges had no discretion in determining whether a juvenile should be treated as a juvenile or an adult because the statute required a juvenile charged with these offenses to be prosecuted as an adult. House Bill 9, which was enacted last year, provided judges the discretion to determine how a juvenile should be treated for four other offenses. This is a continuation of that effort."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 306"
+citation: "Delaware HB 306 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Charles Potter Jr.", "Debra Heffernan", "Harris B. McDowell", "James Johnson", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Sean M. Lynn", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-23"
+last_action: "2018-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/542ec22e-07d8-4e79-b14c-9ddec9763f58"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26278"
+source_hash: "73b653eed84d167c68f0e54aa351f9b08f0c2a08e4d741db7b862ecff12a9b19"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 306 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CERTAIN CRIMES.
+
+This bill permits judges to utilize their discretion in determining whether a juvenile charged with possession of a firearm during commission of a felony should be transferred back to Family Court or remain in Superior Court. Prior to 2017, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony was only one of five criminal charges where judges had no discretion in determining whether a juvenile should be treated as a juvenile or an adult because the statute required a juvenile charged with these offenses to be prosecuted as an adult. House Bill 9, which was enacted last year, provided judges the discretion to determine how a juvenile should be treated for four other offenses. This is a continuation of that effort.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26278&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB306)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
+- James Johnson — primary (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-23** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-28** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 306 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-04-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 306 - Stricken in House
+- **2018-04-17** Amendment HA 2 to HB 306 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-04-17** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2018-04-18** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-03** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
+- **2018-05-24** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/542ec22e-07d8-4e79-b14c-9ddec9763f58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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