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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 190"
citation: "Delaware HB 190 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-18"
last_action: "2021-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/630b2c29-1227-47f5-87af-5eeb51dbd886"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68727"
source_hash: "640f4a3736c4044f59d818e947022a8a15c68e374b921a4eb7ca58f25b51f27e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=68727&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB190)
2. **HA 1 to HB 190** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78836&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/630b2c29-1227-47f5-87af-5eeb51dbd886`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).