republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-38.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION.	The Victim-Offender Mediation Committee was established by the 138th General Assembly in 1996. There have been no significant changes to the statute since then. The composition of the Committee and the nature of the services provided by vendors selected to provide victim-offender mediation services, however, has changed since the program's inception in 1996. For example, the Court of Common Pleas is the principal beneficiary of the program but is not a Committee member.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 38	Delaware SB 38 (150)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Sean M. Lynn	1	7	2	2019-04-09	2019-07-04	openstates	ocd-bill/5990a5c3-56fd-4035-bfd8-e96ca07e71a0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47304	1d99749d03a68ac0a4aa9e0931925fc98543e7b3f69af4c388791ade6c1a9ccd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 38 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION.

The Victim-Offender Mediation Committee was established by the 138th General Assembly in 1996. There have been no significant changes to the statute since then. The composition of the Committee and the nature of the services provided by vendors selected to provide victim-offender mediation services, however, has changed since the program's inception in 1996. For example, the Court of Common Pleas is the principal beneficiary of the program but is not a Committee member.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 17–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-09 Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 1 NO 3 ABSENT passage
• 2019-05-02 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-07-04 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5990a5c3-56fd-4035-bfd8-e96ca07e71a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).