republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-38.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT OF RECORDS OF ADULT ARREST AND CONVICTION.	In 2019, the 150th General Assembly enacted Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 37, which reformed the adult expungement process in this State. After a year of implementing this new expungement process, Senate Bill No. 38 was introduced to make changes to clarify language or increase the efficiency of the process.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 38	Delaware SB 38 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Franklin D. Cooke Sean M. Lynn Valerie Longhurst	1	8	2	2021-03-04	2021-11-08	openstates	ocd-bill/d3b85bf9-56ef-4351-a48c-80c0f6aa42b9	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48419	214e8a116e1750008ece3ca5029eca3320c260b8fb77fd2102962f24bbee6e38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 38 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT OF RECORDS OF ADULT ARREST AND CONVICTION.

In 2019, the 150th General Assembly enacted Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 37, which reformed the adult expungement process in this State. After a year of implementing this new expungement process, Senate Bill No. 38 was introduced to make changes to clarify language or increase the efficiency of the process.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-04 Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 38, and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-10 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-03-17 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-23 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-04-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-11-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d3b85bf9-56ef-4351-a48c-80c0f6aa42b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).