Delaware House Bill 285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)
Status: Passed on July 18 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-07-18 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill corrects technical errors to House Bill 177, passed in 2011 and dealing with juvenile expungement. Section 1 addresses confusion which has arisen regarding whether a Family Court judge may order expungement of charges arising in other counties. Sections 2, 3 and 4 address an accidental overlap in definitions of sex offenses in House Bill 177. The correction eliminates the overlap between misdemeanor and felony sex offenses and clarifies that a five-year wait applies before application may be made for discretionary expungement of a felony sex offense. Section 5 eliminates the requirement that the expungement order be sent by the Family Court to the federal Department of Justice. This communication is already handled by the State Police and the federal government will not accept the communication from the Courts.

An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Expungement.

Rep. Michael Barbieri [D]	Sen. Patricia Blevins [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]
Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]	Rep. James Johnson [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]
Rep. Joseph Miro [R]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Melanie Smith [D]

2012-06-28 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2012-04-24 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-07-18		Signed by Governor
2012-06-28		Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2012-06-28		Necessary rules are suspended in Senate
2012-05-16		Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
2012-04-25		Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2012-04-24		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2012-04-05		Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2012-03-27		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/852473e1da8773e9852579c800757f43?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+285/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/430bd22beadf91d4852579ea006ef2c3?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/1906a33a0f0fe18e85257a2b006a9280?OpenDocument