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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WRONGFUL CONVICTION COMPENSATION AND SERVICES."
+description: "This Act amends the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Services Act (DWCCSA) in several ways. First, in order to make a prima facie showing of entitlement to compensation, under the Act, a petitioner must show that the petitioner did not commit a felony arising from the same transaction as the crime for which the petitioner was originally convicted."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "SB 282"
+citation: "Delaware SB 282 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyra L. Hoffner", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 6
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-04-22"
+last_action: "2026-05-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75de4529-a86f-4652-9a71-4d604f1a8189"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=143160"
+source_hash: "674074e5d1c8a39f2bb26253d2d5815b9aa43bc15ecd464a62fbafdcaecaa245"
+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 282 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WRONGFUL CONVICTION COMPENSATION AND SERVICES.
+
+This Act amends the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Services Act (DWCCSA) in several ways. First, in order to make a prima facie showing of entitlement to compensation, under the Act, a petitioner must show that the petitioner did not commit a felony arising from the same transaction as the crime for which the petitioner was originally convicted.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **19–1** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **31–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Kyra L. Hoffner — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-04-22** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 282 `introduction`
+- **2026-04-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2026-04-30** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-05-13** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2026-05-19** Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 10 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2026-05-21** 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/75de4529-a86f-4652-9a71-4d604f1a8189`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+