republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-107.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL PROCEDURES TO RELINQUISH FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION.	This bill changes the standard of proof necessary to issue a civil gun relinquishment order from the Justice of the Peace Court. The preponderance of the evidence standard is the standard traditionally used in civil matters and is, therefore, appropriate here. This also makes the standard consistent with that required for a Lethal Violence Protective Order, which is highly similar in nature.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 107	Delaware SB 107 (150)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown David Bentz	2	9	2	2019-06-04	2019-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/f7733aca-891b-47f9-8269-acfaf7266950	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47588	e3a3c464b8dad5277450ca80f78e19c60bdc56850a5543380a1e7af7a8e1a8bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 107 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL PROCEDURES TO RELINQUISH FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION.

This bill changes the standard of proof necessary to issue a civil gun relinquishment order from the Justice of the Peace Court. The preponderance of the evidence standard is the standard traditionally used in civil matters and is, therefore, appropriate here. This also makes the standard consistent with that required for a Lethal Violence Protective Order, which is highly similar in nature.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 107 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-04 Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-12 Amendment SA 1 to SB 107 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-19 Amendment SA 1 to SB 107 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2019-06-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-20 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage-unfavorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7733aca-891b-47f9-8269-acfaf7266950. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).