republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-18.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HABITUAL CRIMINALS.	This bill clarifies the General Assembly’s intent last session in amending the state’s habitual offender law, specifically (a) that the changes made by the General Assembly were intended to affect minimum mandatory sentences, not sentences where judges had already exercised complete discretion, (b) that the changes were not designed to reduce minimum mandatory sentences associated in the Delaware Code with specific crimes (e.g. illegal gun possession), and (c) allows the sentencing judge to impose probation after the minimum mandatory sentence required by this section.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 18	Delaware HB 18 (149)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short Gregory F. Lavelle James Johnson Nicole Poore	1	7	2	2016-12-15	2017-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/2f9cf7da-777e-4102-8542-bd199fb31ffb	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25341	3f95270b4a79272c098a4a3fd5a112dac5221ab3704c6fbd9b8e3a791d616bf8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 18 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HABITUAL CRIMINALS.

This bill clarifies the General Assembly’s intent last session in amending the state’s habitual offender law, specifically (a) that the changes made by the General Assembly were intended to affect minimum mandatory sentences, not sentences where judges had already exercised complete discretion, (b) that the changes were not designed to reduce minimum mandatory sentences associated in the Delaware Code with specific crimes (e.g. illegal gun possession), and (c) allows the sentencing judge to impose probation after the minimum mandatory sentence required by this section.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
• James Johnson — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-15 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-18 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-01-19 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-01-19 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-16 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-21 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-13 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f9cf7da-777e-4102-8542-bd199fb31ffb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).