republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-447.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT.	This Act implements some of the recommendations of the African American Task Force's Safety and Justice Subcommittee. Specifically, it requires that cases or charges that are more than 7 years old be treated as “resolved in favor of” a child or adult if there is no disposition available for the case and no outstanding warrants. This clarification will prevent errors in record-keeping in the criminal justice system from stopping an otherwise qualified petitioner from obtaining an expungement that may otherwise be available. It will also require old cases for which no outcome is listed to be removed from a person's record if they are more than 7 years old.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 447	Delaware HB 447 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha Sean M. Lynn Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	12	2	2022-06-02	2022-08-30	openstates	ocd-bill/24cba4fd-fe06-4034-aef3-dee4018824f3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109589	21ebe92f4f954cd7f9e88a3f016d310453d6c871884eebad1a842e881f2a442e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 447 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT.

This Act implements some of the recommendations of the African American Task Force's Safety and Justice Subcommittee. Specifically, it requires that cases or charges that are more than 7 years old be treated as “resolved in favor of” a child or adult if there is no disposition available for the case and no outstanding warrants. This clarification will prevent errors in record-keeping in the criminal justice system from stopping an otherwise qualified petitioner from obtaining an expungement that may otherwise be available. It will also require old cases for which no outcome is listed to be removed from a person's record if they are more than 7 years old.

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 447 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-02 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-21 Amendment HA 1 to HB 447 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-21 Amendment HA 1 to HB 447 - Stricken in House
• 2022-06-21 Amendment HA 2 to HB 447 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-06-21 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-29 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-08-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24cba4fd-fe06-4034-aef3-dee4018824f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).