republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-17.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 11, AND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIME VICTIMS AND WITNESSES.	Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 99 (152nd General Assembly) created the Victims’ Bill of Rights Committee (VBR Committee) to perform a comprehensive review of the Victims’ Bill of Rights (VBR) and make recommendations to clarify the VBR, strengthen protections for victims, and ensure that state agencies have the necessary mechanisms, administration, and funding to successfully implement the VBR. To facilitate in-depth review and discussion, the VBR formed the following 4 subgroups: The Victim Safety Subgroup, The Rights of Special Victims Subgroup, The Victims’ Rights to Information and Notification Procedures Subgroup, and the Victims’ Compensation and Administration Subgroup.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 17	Delaware SB 17 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Cyndie Romer David L. Wilson John "Jack" Walsh Josue O Ortega Marie Pinkney Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Spiros Mantzavinos	0	11	2	2025-05-07	2025-08-20	openstates	ocd-bill/ce7d3a17-5c85-41ab-b5bc-c9b27de96f0c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142220	931f4a77f07d1822ddbcf19569e3feeefffec2174eeda5299b794905f035e1a5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 17 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 11, AND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIME VICTIMS AND WITNESSES.

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 99 (152nd General Assembly) created the Victims’ Bill of Rights Committee (VBR Committee) to perform a comprehensive review of the Victims’ Bill of Rights (VBR) and make recommendations to clarify the VBR, strengthen protections for victims, and ensure that state agencies have the necessary mechanisms, administration, and funding to successfully implement the VBR. To facilitate in-depth review and discussion, the VBR formed the following 4 subgroups: The Victim Safety Subgroup, The Rights of Special Victims Subgroup, The Victims’ Rights to Information and Notification Procedures Subgroup, and the Victims’ Compensation and Administration Subgroup.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 38–2 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-07 Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 17, and Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-05-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-05 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 8 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 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Defeated In House by Voice Vote amendment-failure
• 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NO 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-08-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce7d3a17-5c85-41ab-b5bc-c9b27de96f0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).