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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO JUVENILE EXPUNGEMENTS.	This bill fixes a drafting error in Senate Bill 198 of the 148th General Assembly that inadvertently made it harder for juveniles to get mandatory expungements by adding the term ‘violent misdemeanor’ as an excepting factor that would prevent a youth from receiving an expungement. Previously, violent misdemeanors were never included in the state’s statute regarding mandatory expungements. The bill also strikes the definition of violent misdemeanor, which is no longer applicable to the state’s juvenile expungement statute.The phrase “sex offense” was added after the word “felony” for clarity and to mirror the definition in § 1016. No substantive change is made by this clarification.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 48	Delaware HB 48 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Debra Heffernan James Johnson Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2017-01-24	2017-05-18	openstates	ocd-bill/98b83935-b47d-46cc-a1d1-d3d82daa5448	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25415	fcd289422e00e9ef7bb083df7ed3b2e5ec671123517e8c7e99b794222605c66c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 48 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO JUVENILE EXPUNGEMENTS.

This bill fixes a drafting error in Senate Bill 198 of the 148th General Assembly that inadvertently made it harder for juveniles to get mandatory expungements by adding the term ‘violent misdemeanor’ as an excepting factor that would prevent a youth from receiving an expungement. Previously, violent misdemeanors were never included in the state’s statute regarding mandatory expungements. The bill also strikes the definition of violent misdemeanor, which is no longer applicable to the state’s juvenile expungement statute.The phrase “sex offense” was added after the word “felony” for clarity and to mirror the definition in § 1016. No substantive change is made by this clarification.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• James Johnson — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-24 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-21 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2017-03-21 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-04-04 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-18 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98b83935-b47d-46cc-a1d1-d3d82daa5448. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).