Delaware House Bill 134 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: Passed on April 10 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-04-10 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Bill makes the statutory scheme for expungement of adult criminal offenses more efficient and, by doing so, will require less Superior Court resources. By including the successful completion of “probation before judgment” within the definition of “terminated in favor of the accused” the legislation improves an inadvertent drafting oversight. Previously, all requests for expungement of probation before judgment cases had to be presented to the court via the discretionary expungement process, regardless of nature of the charge, simply because “probation before judgment” was not specifically included within the definition of “terminated in favor of the accused.” Section 1 addresses cases before the Family Court and Section 2 addresses all other cases.

An Act To Amend Titles 10 And 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Expungement Of Adult Arrest Records.

Rep. James Johnson [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Rep. Michael Barbieri [D]	Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]
Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]

2014-03-26 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2013-06-26 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-10	House	Signed by Governor
2014-03-26	Senate	Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2014-01-30	Senate	Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
2013-07-09	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2013-06-26	House	Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2013-06-05	House	Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
2013-05-09	House	Introduced in House and assigned to Judiciary Committee
2013-05-09	House	Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/5716c8b8b7c0e39285257b5800798ed5?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+134/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/0723fc10c079fb4285257b9600739c65?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/358d4bf8d9e9336885257ca70075e868?OpenDocument