republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-47.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 11 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.	This Act simplifies Delaware’s drug code with a goal of providing more fairness in its application. This Act removes geographic-based enhancements that disproportionately impact those living in urban areas as opposed to suburban and rural areas. This Act reduces the number of weight tiers from 5 to 3 with adjustments to accompanying sentences while retaining higher felony levels for weights that indicate drug dealing. This Act reflects the reality that the road to recovery from a drug addiction is difficult by removing automatic sentence enhancements based on prior drug offenses, and instead allowing discretion during sentencing to determine when a repeat offender requires substantive additional penalty.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 47	Delaware SB 47 (150)	bill		enacted	David B. McBride S. Elizabeth Lockman Sean M. Lynn Sherry Dorsey Walker Valerie Longhurst	2	8	2	2019-05-07	2019-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/35a69a93-dc89-4919-b0c8-894781870aae	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47436	11a71cf839645ae0f19855d1c0a333ef4b7fc827f84e1674b65807b177fd46b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 47 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 11 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

This Act simplifies Delaware’s drug code with a goal of providing more fairness in its application. This Act removes geographic-based enhancements that disproportionately impact those living in urban areas as opposed to suburban and rural areas. This Act reduces the number of weight tiers from 5 to 3 with adjustments to accompanying sentences while retaining higher felony levels for weights that indicate drug dealing. This Act reflects the reality that the road to recovery from a drug addiction is difficult by removing automatic sentence enhancements based on prior drug offenses, and instead allowing discretion during sentencing to determine when a repeat offender requires substantive additional penalty.

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 47 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 28–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-07 Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Amendment SA 1 to SB 47 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2019-05-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-05-30 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 12 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-09-16 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35a69a93-dc89-4919-b0c8-894781870aae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).