republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-51.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND PENALTIES.	This Act clarifies the definition of "subsequent offense" to mean a like offense occurring within 3 years of the former offense.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 51	Delaware SB 51 (149)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David L. Wilson Nicole Poore Stephanie T. Bolden Timothy D. Dukes	1	10	3	2017-03-28	2018-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/128cdac4-49ac-4294-9501-1b7f3761df70	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25551	d12a4f2e97a1ecb837327384249b0488d8b31583baecf6bf5730092a708ca66a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 51 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND PENALTIES.

This Act clarifies the definition of "subsequent offense" to mean a like offense occurring within 3 years of the former offense.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-28 Introduced and Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-05-02 Amendment SA 1 to SB 51 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-17 Amendment SA 1 to SB 51 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-05-17 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-17 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-18 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-03-13 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-04-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/128cdac4-49ac-4294-9501-1b7f3761df70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).