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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING."
+description: "This Act strengthens essential protections for victims of human trafficking by removing practical barriers that prevent victims from getting convictions or juvenile delinquency adjudications obtained as a result of being a victim of human trafficking vacated and the related criminal or juvenile records expunged."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "HB 201"
+citation: "Delaware HB 201 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Mara Gorman", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-06-05"
+last_action: "2026-05-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f44a8bab-729c-4b88-953a-1670f7b5081e"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142423"
+source_hash: "61c017446daf207d03ade380f2725bbf2eab5add0344501856be26716a06721b"
+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 201 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
+
+This Act strengthens essential protections for victims of human trafficking by removing practical barriers that prevent victims from getting convictions or juvenile delinquency adjudications obtained as a result of being a victim of human trafficking vacated and the related criminal or juvenile records expunged.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
+- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-14** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 10 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2026-01-28** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-25** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2026-05-14** 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/f44a8bab-729c-4b88-953a-1670f7b5081e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+