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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO DISCHARGE OUTSTANDING BALANCES OWED BY INDIVIDUALS FOR FEES REPEALED BY CHAPTER 441 OF VOLUME 83 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE."
description: "This Act discharges balances owed by individuals ordered to pay a probation supervision fee under § 6504(14) of Title 11 of the Delaware Code or a Public Defender fee under § 4607 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The probation supervision fee and Public Defender fee were repealed by Chapter 441 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware, House Bill No. 244, as amended by House Amendment No. 2 (151st General Assembly)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 284"
citation: "Delaware SB 284 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Kendra Johnson", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-07"
last_action: "2024-08-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33bc70a9-f164-41b0-8bd5-584942ef5336"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141298"
source_hash: "597c027df9031d51040edea966f31a28d23914f66fcea56a05e8bbc790d4eb96"
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# Delaware SB 284 (152) — AN ACT TO DISCHARGE OUTSTANDING BALANCES OWED BY INDIVIDUALS FOR FEES REPEALED BY CHAPTER 441 OF VOLUME 83 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE.
This Act discharges balances owed by individuals ordered to pay a probation supervision fee under § 6504(14) of Title 11 of the Delaware Code or a Public Defender fee under § 4607 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The probation supervision fee and Public Defender fee were repealed by Chapter 441 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware, House Bill No. 244, as amended by House Amendment No. 2 (151st General Assembly).
## 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=141298&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB284)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-07** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2024-05-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2024-08-12** 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/33bc70a9-f164-41b0-8bd5-584942ef5336`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).