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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT."
+description: "This bill clarifies that Probation Before Judgment (PBJ) may be entered for multiple charges arising from a single arrest. Changes to the legislation also allow for a defendant to be permitted Probation Before Judgment more than once in a five year period so long as offenses are in different titles of the Code. For example, a defendant who was granted PBJ in 2017 for speeding (title 21) would be eligible for PBJ on a title 11 charge (e.g. bad check) or title 4 (e.g. underage consumption of alcohol) in 2019."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 39"
+citation: "Delaware SB 39 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Larry Lambert", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-09"
+last_action: "2021-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee407375-3336-472c-966c-78e80d6bdb4d"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48426"
+source_hash: "7239fc793389de2365003ec2101185f270490489d3d40cdd8cc5e6928fbab12d"
+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 39 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT.
+
+This bill clarifies that Probation Before Judgment (PBJ) may be entered for multiple charges arising from a single arrest. Changes to the legislation also allow for a defendant to be permitted Probation Before Judgment more than once in a five year period so long as offenses are in different titles of the Code. For example, a defendant who was granted PBJ in 2017 for speeding (title 21) would be eligible for PBJ on a title 11 charge (e.g. bad check) or title 4 (e.g. underage consumption of alcohol) in 2019.
+
+## 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=48426&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB39)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-09** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-03-12** 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`
+- **2021-03-26** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-04-01** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-04-13** 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/ee407375-3336-472c-966c-78e80d6bdb4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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