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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BURGLARY."
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description: "This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delaware’s Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedules of 21st century homeowners by treating the burglary of an occupied dwelling the same whether the crime occurs during daytime or nighttime hours. The Act removes minimum mandatory sentences for some conduct, but preserves for home invasion a 6 year minimum mandatory sentence and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Finally, the Act eliminates sentence enhancements based on prior convictions and the age of victim. The ability to impose lengthier sentences for subsequent conduct or for crimes against vulnerable victims rests with the discretion of sentencing judges."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "HB 77"
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citation: "Delaware HB 77 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-05-30"
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last_action: "2019-09-16"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8609175-3c61-4861-9490-cd03701312cc"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47549"
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source_hash: "f436b2cf36e6599abb9bbc97a0de7b359e74499ce7b51f19e7da60858945e6df"
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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 77 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BURGLARY.
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This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delaware’s Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedules of 21st century homeowners by treating the burglary of an occupied dwelling the same whether the crime occurs during daytime or nighttime hours. The Act removes minimum mandatory sentences for some conduct, but preserves for home invasion a 6 year minimum mandatory sentence and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Finally, the Act eliminates sentence enhancements based on prior convictions and the age of victim. The ability to impose lengthier sentences for subsequent conduct or for crimes against vulnerable victims rests with the discretion of sentencing judges.
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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=47549&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB77)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47813&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **14–5** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **23–16** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
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- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-05-30** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-05** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Unfavorable `committee-passage-unfavorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 77 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-06-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 77 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2019-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 16 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2019-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
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- **2019-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2019-09-16** 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/d8609175-3c61-4861-9490-cd03701312cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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