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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWAE CODE RELATING TO CRIMES."
+description: "This Act adds the term “adjudication” to this section of the criminal code to enable juvenile defendants to petition the court for their adjudications of delinquency to be vacated and their juvenile criminal record to be expunged in regard to crimes, other than defined violent felonies, committed as a direct result of being victims of human trafficking."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 9"
+citation: "Delaware HB 9 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-11"
+last_action: "2021-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4828cc6-f779-4e0a-b1bf-24c8436e516b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48450"
+source_hash: "4c2475fc8ff2e35fa6924ba25de00adf9ca06fbc44bf08178f24e980e78de02e"
+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 9 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWAE CODE RELATING TO CRIMES.
+
+This Act adds the term “adjudication” to this section of the criminal code to enable juvenile defendants to petition the court for their adjudications of delinquency to be vacated and their juvenile criminal record to be expunged in regard to crimes, other than defined violent felonies, committed as a direct result of being victims of human trafficking.
+
+## 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=48450&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB9)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48497&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — 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.
+
+- **2021-03-11** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-03-30** Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-03-30** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-06-15** 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/c4828cc6-f779-4e0a-b1bf-24c8436e516b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+