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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION AND PAROLE RECOMMENDATONS FOR HOUSE ARREST.	This Act reflects a recommendation of the 2019 Comprehensive Reentry Plan and Progress Report which allows the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole officers the flexibility to recommend to a court house arrest (Level IV home confinement) for any probation violator in appropriate circumstances. Under current law, Probation and Parole may not recommend house arrest (Level IV home confinement) for a person who violates probation if the person was initially convicted of a “violent crime.” Accordingly, recommendations pertaining to probation violations for persons convicted of a “violent crime” are limited to Levels 1-3 (a lower level of supervision) or Level V (incarceration) which may be excessive and costly.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 73	Delaware HB 73 (151)	bill		enacted	Eric Morrison Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown	1	9	2	2021-01-14	2021-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/0e17b272-1350-4fa1-ab90-45b94981aa5b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48293	7eb93111ebf2e9cdeef0b0567428af259119e984e0647c40da8bd14b9768561b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 73 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION AND PAROLE RECOMMENDATONS FOR HOUSE ARREST.

This Act reflects a recommendation of the 2019 Comprehensive Reentry Plan and Progress Report which allows the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole officers the flexibility to recommend to a court house arrest (Level IV home confinement) for any probation violator in appropriate circumstances. Under current law, Probation and Parole may not recommend house arrest (Level IV home confinement) for a person who violates probation if the person was initially convicted of a “violent crime.” Accordingly, recommendations pertaining to probation violations for persons convicted of a “violent crime” are limited to Levels 1-3 (a lower level of supervision) or Level V (incarceration) which may be excessive and costly.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 14–7 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-14 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-01-26 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-19 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-03-19 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-03-25 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-03-25 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-31 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO passage
• 2021-06-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e17b272-1350-4fa1-ab90-45b94981aa5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).