republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-6.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A JUVENILE'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN FAMILY COURT AND THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT.	This Act codifies a juvenile's right to counsel in Family Court delinquency proceedings. The bill outlines certain circumstances where a juvenile may not waive the right to counsel: where the juvenile is accused of a felony, where the juvenile is in the custody of the Division of Family Services, where the juvenile is under the age of 16, or where the victim of the alleged delinquent act is a family member or guardian or where the family member or guardian has an interest adverse to the juvenile.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 6	Delaware HB 6 (149)	bill		enacted	David Bentz Margaret Rose Henry	1	7	2	2017-05-10	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/3cd34933-6e41-4caf-8dec-74725252ac24	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25765	39372080aff7b177c7c131167590818890c0d0aba138fca13d42d6414936ba33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 6 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A JUVENILE'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN FAMILY COURT AND THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT.

This Act codifies a juvenile's right to counsel in Family Court delinquency proceedings. The bill outlines certain circumstances where a juvenile may not waive the right to counsel: where the juvenile is accused of a felony, where the juvenile is in the custody of the Division of Family Services, where the juvenile is under the age of 16, or where the victim of the alleged delinquent act is a family member or guardian or where the family member or guardian has an interest adverse to the juvenile.

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 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-10 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-20 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2017-10-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3cd34933-6e41-4caf-8dec-74725252ac24. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).