republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-197.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND EXPUNGEMENT.	This Act provides mandatory expungement eligibility to individuals who were convicted of the possession, use or consumption of marijuana prior to Delaware’s decriminalization of these offenses. To be eligible for the mandatory expungement, the marijuana conviction must be the applicant’s only criminal conviction.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 197	Delaware SB 197 (149)	bill		enacted	Gregory F. Lavelle Valerie Longhurst	1	9	2	2018-05-08	2018-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ac02b81e-0ef7-44e6-bfcb-060afe736d2d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26617	6f46f2cae2e6afc2478fa7b1fe6373ad05249cc103d2f04aee095642bc0ec281	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 197 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND EXPUNGEMENT.

This Act provides mandatory expungement eligibility to individuals who were convicted of the possession, use or consumption of marijuana prior to Delaware’s decriminalization of these offenses. To be eligible for the mandatory expungement, the marijuana conviction must be the applicant’s only criminal conviction.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-08 Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-07 Amendment SA 1 to SB 197 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-12 Amendment SA 1 to SB 197 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2018-06-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-13 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-08-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac02b81e-0ef7-44e6-bfcb-060afe736d2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).