republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-190.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.	This Act updates the domestic violence first offender diversion program to allow the following offenses to be eligible for the program: assault third, terroristic threatening, and criminal contempt of a domestic violence protective order or lethal violence protective order. In addition, the Act makes these same offenses ineligible for probation before judgement in the Court of Common Pleas and Family Court.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 190	Delaware HB 190 (151)	bill		enacted	Krista Griffith Michael F. Smith Nicole Poore Valerie Longhurst	2	9	2	2021-05-18	2021-08-04	openstates	ocd-bill/630b2c29-1227-47f5-87af-5eeb51dbd886	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68727	640f4a3736c4044f59d818e947022a8a15c68e374b921a4eb7ca58f25b51f27e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 190 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

This Act updates the domestic violence first offender diversion program to allow the following offenses to be eligible for the program: assault third, terroristic threatening, and criminal contempt of a domestic violence protective order or lethal violence protective order. In addition, the Act makes these same offenses ineligible for probation before judgement in the Court of Common Pleas and Family Court.

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 190 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-18 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2021-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-08-04 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/630b2c29-1227-47f5-87af-5eeb51dbd886. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).