Delaware House Bill 48 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)
Status: Passed on May 18 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-05-18 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill fixes a drafting error in Senate Bill 198 of the 148th General Assembly that inadvertently made it harder for juveniles to get mandatory expungements by adding the term violent misdemeanor as an excepting factor that would prevent a youth from receiving an expungement. Previously, violent misdemeanors were never included in the states statute regarding mandatory expungements. The bill also strikes the definition of violent misdemeanor, which is no longer applicable to the states juvenile expungement statute.The phrase sex offense was added after the word felony for clarity and to mirror the definition in § 1016. No substantive change is made by this clarification.

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

Rep. James Johnson [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]
Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]
Rep. Ronald Gray [R]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Rep. John Viola [D]

2017-04-04 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-03-21 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-18		Signed by Governor
2017-04-04		Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT
2017-03-30		Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits
2017-03-21		Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate
2017-03-21		Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
2017-01-25		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
2017-01-24		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25415
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25415&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB48
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#18319
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#18420