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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND EXPUNGEMENT."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "149"
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identifier: "SB 197"
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citation: "Delaware SB 197 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gregory F. Lavelle", "Valerie Longhurst"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2018-05-08"
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last_action: "2018-08-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac02b81e-0ef7-44e6-bfcb-060afe736d2d"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26617"
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source_hash: "6f46f2cae2e6afc2478fa7b1fe6373ad05249cc103d2f04aee095642bc0ec281"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# 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.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26617&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB197)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
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- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2018-06-07** Amendment SA 1 to SB 197 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2018-06-12** Amendment SA 1 to SB 197 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
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- **2018-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2018-06-13** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-07-01** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2018-08-29** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac02b81e-0ef7-44e6-bfcb-060afe736d2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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