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type: "Bill"
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title: "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."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 244"
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citation: "Delaware HB 244 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-06-10"
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last_action: "2022-10-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb705a0a-49e8-47c9-a17d-222ad19787eb"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78879"
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source_hash: "c0eb4f90ac71f7887f57114de7468890942b38654f015702fa6712cfc0105c90"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# 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.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=78879&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB244)
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2. **HA 2 to HB 244** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109422&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **31–9** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
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- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
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- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
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- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
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- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-10** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 244 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-04-13** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-03** Amendment HA 2 to HB 244 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-05-03** Amendment HA 1 to HB 244 - Stricken in House
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- **2022-05-03** Amendment HA 2 to HB 244 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-05-03** Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 9 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-05-03** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2022-06-15** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
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- **2022-10-03** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb705a0a-49e8-47c9-a17d-222ad19787eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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