republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-9.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWAE CODE RELATING TO CRIMES.	This Act adds the term “adjudication” to this section of the criminal code to enable juvenile defendants to petition the court for their adjudications of delinquency to be vacated and their juvenile criminal record to be expunged in regard to crimes, other than defined violent felonies, committed as a direct result of being victims of human trafficking.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 9	Delaware HB 9 (151)	bill		enacted	Kimberly Williams Nicole Poore Valerie Longhurst	2	9	2	2021-03-11	2021-06-15	openstates	ocd-bill/c4828cc6-f779-4e0a-b1bf-24c8436e516b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48450	4c2475fc8ff2e35fa6924ba25de00adf9ca06fbc44bf08178f24e980e78de02e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 9 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWAE CODE RELATING TO CRIMES.

This Act adds the term “adjudication” to this section of the criminal code to enable juvenile defendants to petition the court for their adjudications of delinquency to be vacated and their juvenile criminal record to be expunged in regard to crimes, other than defined violent felonies, committed as a direct result of being victims of human trafficking.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 9 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-11 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-30 Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES amendment-passage
• 2021-03-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-03-30 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-06-15 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4828cc6-f779-4e0a-b1bf-24c8436e516b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).