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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PARDONS."
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description: "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."
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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 321"
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citation: "Delaware SB 321 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-06-09"
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last_action: "2022-11-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77123bd5-5161-46f0-abd7-bb710ab2e6a4"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129675"
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source_hash: "cfe85315ab035d74bb1fdf40885d42499d1463db7da8fedbaac2b4176c7d6c4a"
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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 321 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PARDONS.
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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.
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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=129675&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB321)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 321** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129726&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-06-09** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-06-15** Laid On Table in Senate
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- **2022-06-16** Lifted From Table in Senate
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- **2022-06-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-06-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-06-17** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-11-02** 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/77123bd5-5161-46f0-abd7-bb710ab2e6a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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