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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION."
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description: "This bill expands prison-based jobs to provide work experience and job skill training and will assist offenders with reentry, while also maintaining Department of Correction (“DOC”) facilities. DOC has not been able to increase the number of offender job opportunities at its facilities or increase inmate wages due to budget constraints; and allowing offenders to be either compensated or awarded additional good time credits will allow the Department to increase the number of offenders eligible to work and provide them with additional opportunities to earn good time credits. Increasing the number of good time credit days an offender may earn will enhance the incentive for inmates to participate in approved programs and productive work."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "SB 158"
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citation: "Delaware SB 158 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-06-03"
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last_action: "2021-07-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5d47fae-44ed-4b19-affe-698677af7229"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78782"
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source_hash: "7a02be3ece327092bfb3e385892e14ffe3cecee568bcf4c57f58466318182ef1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 158 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.
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This bill expands prison-based jobs to provide work experience and job skill training and will assist offenders with reentry, while also maintaining Department of Correction (“DOC”) facilities. DOC has not been able to increase the number of offender job opportunities at its facilities or increase inmate wages due to budget constraints; and allowing offenders to be either compensated or awarded additional good time credits will allow the Department to increase the number of offenders eligible to work and provide them with additional opportunities to earn good time credits. Increasing the number of good time credit days an offender may earn will enhance the incentive for inmates to participate in approved programs and productive work.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=78782&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB158)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2021-06-11** Assigned to Corrections Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2021-07-20** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5d47fae-44ed-4b19-affe-698677af7229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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