republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-12.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE AND CHAPTER 72, VOLUME 83 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO PRETRIAL RELEASE AND DETENTION.	This Act amends Delaware’s laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting preventive detention, as proposed by Senate Bill No. 11 of the 152nd General Assembly.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 12	Delaware SB 12 (152)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Nicole Poore Sarah McBride Sean Matthews	2	13	2	2024-05-02	2024-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/20879851-b472-4832-83a1-6604822042b4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141291	5fbe1e7e0f33c8c93dea99ff2ac02debde07d0fb320bf609877df28caa7242fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 12 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE AND CHAPTER 72, VOLUME 83 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO PRETRIAL RELEASE AND DETENTION.

This Act amends Delaware’s laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting preventive detention, as proposed by Senate Bill No. 11 of the 152nd General Assembly.

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 12 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 32–7 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-02 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-14 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-05-15 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-05-21 Amendment SA 1 to SB 12 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-05-22 Amendment SA 1 to SB 12 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2024-05-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-05-23 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-06-13 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-20 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 7 NO 2 NOT VOTING passage
• 2024-09-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20879851-b472-4832-83a1-6604822042b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).