---
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).