republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-244.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 21, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINES, FEES, COSTS, ASSESSMENTS, AND RESTITUTION.	Recognizing the negative impact of criminal justice imposed financial obligations on defendants has led to reforms across the country to reduce the financial burdens that disproportionally impact the poor. This type of debt and the collateral consequences of suspending a driver’s license negatively impacts the rehabilitation of those in the criminal justice system and pushes those without an ability to pay further into the system unnecessarily.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 244	Delaware HB 244 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Melissa Minor-Brown Sean M. Lynn Sherae'a Moore Sherry Dorsey Walker Valerie Longhurst	2	15	2	2021-06-10	2022-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/eb705a0a-49e8-47c9-a17d-222ad19787eb	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78879	c0eb4f90ac71f7887f57114de7468890942b38654f015702fa6712cfc0105c90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 244 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 21, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINES, FEES, COSTS, ASSESSMENTS, AND RESTITUTION.

Recognizing the negative impact of criminal justice imposed financial obligations on defendants has led to reforms across the country to reduce the financial burdens that disproportionally impact the poor. This type of debt and the collateral consequences of suspending a driver’s license negatively impacts the rehabilitation of those in the criminal justice system and pushes those without an ability to pay further into the system unnecessarily.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to HB 244 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 31–9 (pass) · lower
• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
• William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-10 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 8 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 244 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-04-13 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-03 Amendment HA 2 to HB 244 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-03 Amendment HA 1 to HB 244 - Stricken in House
• 2022-05-03 Amendment HA 2 to HB 244 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-05-03 Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 9 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-05-03 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2022-06-15 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO passage
• 2022-10-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb705a0a-49e8-47c9-a17d-222ad19787eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).