---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINES, COSTS, PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES."
description: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINES, COSTS, PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 84"
citation: "Delaware HB 84 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "John L. Mitchell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-21"
last_action: "2017-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39e043fa-a64a-445d-8097-c6ef8b828f4d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25496"
source_hash: "5d55dd77a2ed9fbe3fe24a482bc3393e139392663c8bc8b25288af263baccaf9"
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 84 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINES, COSTS, PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES.

## 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=25496&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB84)

## Votes

- SM — **15–1** (pass) · upper
- SM — **26–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-03-21** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 84 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-29** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2017-03-30** Amendment HA 1 to HB 84 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 10 NO 4 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 1 NO 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-08** 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/39e043fa-a64a-445d-8097-c6ef8b828f4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).