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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION AND PAROLE RECOMMENDATONS FOR HOUSE ARREST."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 73"
citation: "Delaware HB 73 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Morrison", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e17b272-1350-4fa1-ab90-45b94981aa5b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48293"
source_hash: "7eb93111ebf2e9cdeef0b0567428af259119e984e0647c40da8bd14b9768561b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48293&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB73)
## Votes
- SM — **147** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e17b272-1350-4fa1-ab90-45b94981aa5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).