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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HABITUAL CRIMINALS."
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description: "This bill clarifies the General Assembly’s intent last session in amending the state’s habitual offender law, specifically (a) that the changes made by the General Assembly were intended to affect minimum mandatory sentences, not sentences where judges had already exercised complete discretion, (b) that the changes were not designed to reduce minimum mandatory sentences associated in the Delaware Code with specific crimes (e.g. illegal gun possession), and (c) allows the sentencing judge to impose probation after the minimum mandatory sentence required by this section."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "149"
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identifier: "HB 18"
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citation: "Delaware HB 18 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Daniel B. Short", "Gregory F. Lavelle", "James Johnson", "Nicole Poore"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2016-12-15"
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last_action: "2017-04-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f9cf7da-777e-4102-8542-bd199fb31ffb"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25341"
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source_hash: "3f95270b4a79272c098a4a3fd5a112dac5221ab3704c6fbd9b8e3a791d616bf8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 18 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HABITUAL CRIMINALS.
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This bill clarifies the General Assembly’s intent last session in amending the state’s habitual offender law, specifically (a) that the changes made by the General Assembly were intended to affect minimum mandatory sentences, not sentences where judges had already exercised complete discretion, (b) that the changes were not designed to reduce minimum mandatory sentences associated in the Delaware Code with specific crimes (e.g. illegal gun possession), and (c) allows the sentencing judge to impose probation after the minimum mandatory sentence required by this section.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25341&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB18)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
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- Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
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- James Johnson — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-12-15** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-18** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-01-19** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2017-01-19** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-16** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-03-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2017-04-13** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f9cf7da-777e-4102-8542-bd199fb31ffb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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