Senator Darius Brown represents the Second Senate District which includes New Castle, Wilmington and Edgemoor. He is committed to expanding economic opportunity by creating pathways out of poverty through restorative justice, workforce competitiveness and infrastructure investment.
Senator Brown has sponsored landmark legislation, including the passage of The Equal Rights Amendment to the state Constitution, The CROWN Act, Juneteenth as a state holiday, and Law Enforcement Body-Worn Cameras. He also sponsored the Adult Expungement Reform Act and the Clean Slate Act to help remove barriers to education, employment and housing for more than 290,000 Delawareans leading the Wilmington News Journal to name him “one of the State house’s champions of criminal justice reform and racial equity.”
Senator Brown currently serves as chair of the Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee, the vice chair of the Senate Judiciary, and a member of the Senate Labor and Veterans Affairs committees. He also holds a seat on the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee.
Legislative Service:
Senate, 2018 - present
Committees:
- Elections & Government Affairs, Chair
- Judiciary, Vice-Chair
- Joint Finance, Member
- Labor, Member
- Veterans Affairs, Vice-Chair
Legislative Highlights
Senate Bill 31
The first bill in the Delaware Legislative Black Caucus’s Justice for All Agenda enacted into law by the General Assembly, the Equal Rights Amendment to the Delaware Constitution marked a meaningful step on the long road toward addressing the original […]
Senate Bill 32
Passed unanimously by the General Assembly, the Delaware Crown Act (Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) protected people of color from facing discrimination due to their braids, locs, twists and other hairstyles or hair textures historically associated […]
Senate Bill 111
The Clean Slate Act continued the restorative justice work of Senator Darius Brown by building on the success of the Adult Expungement Reform Act of 2019, which significantly expanded the availability of expungements to Delawareans beyond the previously narrow population […]
Senate Bill 158
Continuing the restorative justice work of Senator Brown, this legislation expanded employment opportunities in the First State’s prisons to provide incarcerated Delawareans with valuable work experience and job skills they can use to find stable work upon their release. Passed […]
