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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION."
+description: "The Victim-Offender Mediation Committee was established by the 138th General Assembly in 1996. There have been no significant changes to the statute since then. The composition of the Committee and the nature of the services provided by vendors selected to provide victim-offender mediation services, however, has changed since the program's inception in 1996. For example, the Court of Common Pleas is the principal beneficiary of the program but is not a Committee member."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 38"
+citation: "Delaware SB 38 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Sean M. Lynn"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-04-09"
+last_action: "2019-07-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5990a5c3-56fd-4035-bfd8-e96ca07e71a0"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47304"
+source_hash: "1d99749d03a68ac0a4aa9e0931925fc98543e7b3f69af4c388791ade6c1a9ccd"
+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 SB 38 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION.
+
+The Victim-Offender Mediation Committee was established by the 138th General Assembly in 1996. There have been no significant changes to the statute since then. The composition of the Committee and the nature of the services provided by vendors selected to provide victim-offender mediation services, however, has changed since the program's inception in 1996. For example, the Court of Common Pleas is the principal beneficiary of the program but is not a Committee member.
+
+## 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=47304&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB38)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **17–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-04-09** Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 1 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2019-07-04** 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/5990a5c3-56fd-4035-bfd8-e96ca07e71a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+