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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE."
description: "Section 1 of this Act addresses a condition of confinement issue that could adversely affect inmate rehabilitation efforts by eliminating solitary confinement imposed by the sentencing court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Delaware SB 98 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a722c021-e514-4fcc-b247-556817861ec0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58527"
source_hash: "da398e33156abef9a31a153aebece9eba6c2b8cfde62857c7870d3ac247b4af3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 98 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Section 1 of this Act addresses a condition of confinement issue that could adversely affect inmate rehabilitation efforts by eliminating solitary confinement imposed by the sentencing court.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=58527&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB98)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **156** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-30** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-29** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2021-05-11** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2021-05-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Assigned to Corrections Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-30** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a722c021-e514-4fcc-b247-556817861ec0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).