republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-39.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONCURRENT JURISDICTION.	This Act extends Family Court's jurisdiction under Chapter 50, Title 16, over a youth who has a mental condition and requires services or treatment but is not amenable to or compliant with such services.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 39	Delaware HB 39 (149)	bill		enacted	Catherine Cloutier Harris B. McDowell Sean M. Lynn	1	11	2	2017-01-18	2017-09-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a10f8875-df1b-48e3-b161-0e8731a6af73	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25393	9f6bc7820829011428f7a8b65a66192532016fb2b9ed52b2cd548647c161bba7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 39 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONCURRENT JURISDICTION.

This Act extends Family Court's jurisdiction under Chapter 50, Title 16, over a youth who has a mental condition and requires services or treatment but is not amenable to or compliant with such services.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-18 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 39 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-28 Amendment HA 2 to HB 39 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-28 Amendment HA 1 to HB 39 - Stricken in House
• 2017-03-28 Amendment HA 2 to HB 39 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-28 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-03-28 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-05-03 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-09-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a10f8875-df1b-48e3-b161-0e8731a6af73. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).