republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-220.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE JUVENILE CIVIL CITATION PROGRAM.	This Act requires a peace officer to consider issuing a juvenile civil citation to a qualified juvenile offender who would otherwise be charged only with specified offenses, and requires that if the peace officer decides not to issue a civil citation and instead charges the juvenile with a crime, the peace officer must document the reason in DELJIS. This Act also requires each law enforcement agency to submit an annual report to the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission about its use of juvenile civil citations. Finally, this Act requires that training on the Juvenile Civil Citation Program be included as part of a police officer’s mandatory training every 2 years.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 220	Delaware HB 220 (153)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Eric Morrison Josue O Ortega Mara Gorman Nicole Poore Sarah McBride Spiros Mantzavinos William Bush	0	11	2	2025-06-10	2025-08-20	openstates	ocd-bill/b7002525-0e3d-469f-9cfa-51fceac8788b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142478	7e3777bce8a6aa6d4516ae95fa7e460b9f9f1a315b459cd7ab0b0d37fe2e3316	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 220 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE JUVENILE CIVIL CITATION PROGRAM.

This Act requires a peace officer to consider issuing a juvenile civil citation to a qualified juvenile offender who would otherwise be charged only with specified offenses, and requires that if the peace officer decides not to issue a civil citation and instead charges the juvenile with a crime, the peace officer must document the reason in DELJIS. This Act also requires each law enforcement agency to submit an annual report to the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission about its use of juvenile civil citations. Finally, this Act requires that training on the Juvenile Civil Citation Program be included as part of a police officer’s mandatory training every 2 years.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Mara Gorman — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-10 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-20 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-06-26 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-30 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-08-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b7002525-0e3d-469f-9cfa-51fceac8788b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).