republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-321.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PARDONS.	This bill broadens the scope of mental health practitioners who are authorized by statute to conduct examinations with inmates for purposes of advising the Board of Pardons on matters material to the Board’s scope of review. This will enable licensed mental health practitioners and other clinical mental health professionals to participate in the process of evaluating and reporting upon an offender’s mental health history, likelihood to re-offend, and other pertinent matters that will assist the deliberative process of the Board of Pardons.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 321	Delaware SB 321 (151)	bill		enacted	Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	11	2	2022-06-09	2022-11-02	openstates	ocd-bill/77123bd5-5161-46f0-abd7-bb710ab2e6a4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129675	cfe85315ab035d74bb1fdf40885d42499d1463db7da8fedbaac2b4176c7d6c4a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 321 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PARDONS.

This bill broadens the scope of mental health practitioners who are authorized by statute to conduct examinations with inmates for purposes of advising the Board of Pardons on matters material to the Board’s scope of review. This will enable licensed mental health practitioners and other clinical mental health professionals to participate in the process of evaluating and reporting upon an offender’s mental health history, likelihood to re-offend, and other pertinent matters that will assist the deliberative process of the Board of Pardons.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 321 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-09 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-15 Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-15 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2022-06-16 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2022-06-16 Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2022-06-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-17 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-11-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77123bd5-5161-46f0-abd7-bb710ab2e6a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).