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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANDATORY SENTENCES FOR JUVENILES."
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description: "This bill clarifies House Bill 307 from 2018 by making it clear that a 6-month or 12-month mandatory commitment to Level 5 incarceration or institutional confinement for a juvenile only applies to adjudications of delinquency for the charge of Robbery First Degree or Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Felony if the offense was committed after the child’s 16th birthday."
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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 314"
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citation: "Delaware HB 314 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-03-03"
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last_action: "2022-10-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a88f8b5-fb89-4096-b91b-b2eb431f3c50"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79162"
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source_hash: "db4d97e99e3f60820b8a962055798cbd2fc1b44ced556bd93d36becd5fc51a12"
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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 314 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANDATORY SENTENCES FOR JUVENILES.
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This bill clarifies House Bill 307 from 2018 by making it clear that a 6-month or 12-month mandatory commitment to Level 5 incarceration or institutional confinement for a juvenile only applies to adjudications of delinquency for the charge of Robbery First Degree or Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Felony if the offense was committed after the child’s 16th birthday.
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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=79162&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB314)
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## Votes
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- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-23** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-05** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-05-05** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-10-26** 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/3a88f8b5-fb89-4096-b91b-b2eb431f3c50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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