---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 11, AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT."
description: "This Act expands eligibility for mandatory expungement of adult and juvenile cases by doing all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 112"
citation: "Delaware SB 112 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-14"
last_action: "2021-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2796426d-3e1a-4304-aecc-829f14cebf0d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58583"
source_hash: "9283e4e6e9ad6fa302be0a92104a63e3a10fb3237a0a4c87663bc4323e892a96"
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 112 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 11, AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT.

This Act expands eligibility for mandatory expungement of adult and juvenile cases by doing all of the following:

## 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=58583&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB112)
2. **SA 1 to SB 112** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68622&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **38–3** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-14** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment SA 1 to SB 112 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-27** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment SA 1 to SB 112 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 NO `passage`
- **2021-11-08** 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/2796426d-3e1a-4304-aecc-829f14cebf0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).