republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-77.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BURGLARY.	This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delaware’s Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedules of 21st century homeowners by treating the burglary of an occupied dwelling the same whether the crime occurs during daytime or nighttime hours. The Act removes minimum mandatory sentences for some conduct, but preserves for home invasion a 6 year minimum mandatory sentence and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Finally, the Act eliminates sentence enhancements based on prior convictions and the age of victim. The ability to impose lengthier sentences for subsequent conduct or for crimes against vulnerable victims rests with the discretion of sentencing judges.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 77	Delaware HB 77 (150)	bill		enacted	David P. Sokola Debra Heffernan Stephanie T. Bolden	2	8	2	2019-05-30	2019-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/d8609175-3c61-4861-9490-cd03701312cc	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47549	f436b2cf36e6599abb9bbc97a0de7b359e74499ce7b51f19e7da60858945e6df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 77 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BURGLARY.

This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delaware’s Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedules of 21st century homeowners by treating the burglary of an occupied dwelling the same whether the crime occurs during daytime or nighttime hours. The Act removes minimum mandatory sentences for some conduct, but preserves for home invasion a 6 year minimum mandatory sentence and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Finally, the Act eliminates sentence enhancements based on prior convictions and the age of victim. The ability to impose lengthier sentences for subsequent conduct or for crimes against vulnerable victims rests with the discretion of sentencing judges.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 77 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 14–5 (pass) · upper
• SM — 23–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-30 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Unfavorable committee-passage-unfavorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 77 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 77 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-25 Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 16 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2019-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-09-16 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8609175-3c61-4861-9490-cd03701312cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).