republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-39.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT.	This bill clarifies that Probation Before Judgment (PBJ) may be entered for multiple charges arising from a single arrest. Changes to the legislation also allow for a defendant to be permitted Probation Before Judgment more than once in a five year period so long as offenses are in different titles of the Code. For example, a defendant who was granted PBJ in 2017 for speeding (title 21) would be eligible for PBJ on a title 11 charge (e.g. bad check) or title 4 (e.g. underage consumption of alcohol) in 2019.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 39	Delaware SB 39 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Kyle Evans Gay Larry Lambert Sean M. Lynn Sherry Dorsey Walker William Bush	1	8	2	2021-03-09	2021-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ee407375-3336-472c-966c-78e80d6bdb4d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48426	7239fc793389de2365003ec2101185f270490489d3d40cdd8cc5e6928fbab12d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 39 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT.

This bill clarifies that Probation Before Judgment (PBJ) may be entered for multiple charges arising from a single arrest. Changes to the legislation also allow for a defendant to be permitted Probation Before Judgment more than once in a five year period so long as offenses are in different titles of the Code. For example, a defendant who was granted PBJ in 2017 for speeding (title 21) would be eligible for PBJ on a title 11 charge (e.g. bad check) or title 4 (e.g. underage consumption of alcohol) in 2019.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-09 Introduced 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
• 2021-03-11 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-03-12 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-26 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-04-01 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-04-13 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ee407375-3336-472c-966c-78e80d6bdb4d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).