republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-111.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AUTOMATIC EXPUNGEMENT.	This Act creates an automatic expungement process for adult and juvenile charges that are eligible for mandatory expungement because under the petition-based system, only a small fraction of people eligible for expungement ever obtain this important relief. Under this Act, the State Bureau of Identification must identify and expunge cases eligible for automatic mandatory expungement on a monthly basis.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 111	Delaware SB 111 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Franklin D. Cooke Kendra Johnson Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha Sherry Dorsey Walker	1	13	2	2021-04-14	2021-11-08	openstates	ocd-bill/51a3a795-888d-49e2-92c6-4756a41520d8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58578	0a607f621e4758020c7e874348fca28c43e8ca5b56271a4f6c3f761b2adbd27e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 111 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AUTOMATIC EXPUNGEMENT.

This Act creates an automatic expungement process for adult and juvenile charges that are eligible for mandatory expungement because under the petition-based system, only a small fraction of people eligible for expungement ever obtain this important relief. Under this Act, the State Bureau of Identification must identify and expunge cases eligible for automatic mandatory expungement on a monthly basis.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 36–5 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-14 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-21 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2021-04-29 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2021-04-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-05-06 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2021-05-20 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 NO passage
• 2021-11-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51a3a795-888d-49e2-92c6-4756a41520d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).