An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Specific Offenses. [HB-322]
This Act corrects a loop-hole in Delaware’s felony resisting arrest statute identified by the Delaware Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Watson v. State, No. 335, 2009 (January 6, 2010). In Watson, two probation and parole officers were injured by a defendant while trying to make an arrest for a probation violation. On appeal, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed Watson’s convictions for the felony offense of resisting arrest by force or violence under 1257(a) because the statute, by its express terms, only applies to arrests by police officers.
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HB-322: An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Specific Offenses.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 05/18/2010
An Act To Amend Title 12 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Disposition Of A Person’s Last Remains [HB-323]
This Act recognizes a military service member’s executed Record of Emergency Data Form (DD Form 93) as a valid declaration instrument governing the disposition of the service member’s last remains in the event of death. Pursuant to Federal law (Section 564 of Public Law 109-163), military service members must execute a DD Form 93 designating a person authorized to direct disposition of their remains in the event of death. Service members must update the form annually and prior to any deployment
HB-323: An Act To Amend Title 12 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Disposition Of A Person’s Last Remains
Sponsored by: Rep. William Outten
Signed By Governor on 06/15/2010
An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Constable Sales. [HB-324]
This Act eliminates a reference to a code section which no longer regulates court costs in the Justice of the Peace Court costs. Legislation passed earlier in the 145th General Assembly (Senate Bill No. 37) authorized the Justice of the Peace Court to establish court costs by court rule, subject to the approval of the Chief Justice.
HB-324: An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Constable Sales.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Signed By Governor on 04/08/2010
An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Exceptional Persons. [HB-328]
This bill would require courts, administrative tribunals, school districts, and schools to use the definition of “free and appropriate education” with respect to disabled children that has been enumerated for this region of the country by the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Ridgewood Board of Education v. N.E., 172 F.3d 238 (3d. Cir. 1999).
HB-328: An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Exceptional Persons.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Wilson
Signed By Governor on 06/17/2010
HB-331: An Act To Amend Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Child Care Quality And The Establishment Of Tiered Reimbursements Based On Quality Of Care.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Introduced And Assigned To Health & Human Development Committee In House on 03/11/2010
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An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Protection From Abuse Proceedings. [HB-336]
This Act enhances the Family Court’s ability to protect victims of domestic violence and abuse by authorizing the Family Court to enter the no contact provisions of protection from abuse orders for up to 2 years in every case and, where aggravating circumstances exist, authorizing the Family Court to order no contact for as long as it deems necessary to prevent further abuse, including the entry of a permanent order.
HB-336: An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Protection From Abuse Proceedings.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Wilson
Signed By Governor on 07/12/2010
An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Classification Of Offenses And Sentences. [HB-338]
This Act authorizes a sentencing court to modify, defer, reduce or suspend a minimum or mandatory sentence of one year of less if it finds the person to be sentenced has serious and ongoing medical treatment needs which make incarceration inappropriate and that the person does not pose a substantial risk to the community. The Department of Corrections has authority (11 Del. C. 4217) to request the modification of an inmate’s sentence based on medical illness or infirmity. This Act would give Delaware’s courts similar authority in imposing sentences,
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HB-338: An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Classification Of Offenses And Sentences.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 06/22/2010
An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Establishment Of A Mental Health Death Review Committee. [HB-34]
This Bill creates a committee to assess deaths of individuals receiving residential mental health services through the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health or funded private providers. The purpose of the Committee is to assess causation; promote improvements in policies, practices, and the service delivery system; and reduce prospects for preventable deaths.
HB-34: An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Establishment Of A Mental Health Death Review Committee.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Johnson
Stricken on 06/09/2009
[HB-344]
This Act clarifies the individuals who may lawfully solemnize marriages under Delaware law, providing that a minister or clergy persons of any religion, Judge of any Delaware court and Mayor of any incorporated town, within the limits such town, may solemnize a marriage between individuals who may lawfully enter into matrimonial relation.
HB-344:
Sponsored by: Sen. Margaret Henry
Signed By Governor on 05/21/2010
An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Mandatory Reporting Of School Crimes. [HB-347]
This Act implements recommendations of the Legislative Subcommittee of the School Discipline Task Force created by House Resolution No. 22 of the 145th General Assembly. Under current Delaware law, school officials have a mandatory obligation to report to the police and, in certain instances, initiate criminal prosecution of specific misdemeanor offenses (Assault in the 3rd Degree, Unlawful Sexual Contact in the 3rd Degree, Offensive Touching and Terroristic Threatening) committed by students over the age of 9. This Act would raise the age to 12.
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HB-347: An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Mandatory Reporting Of School Crimes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 08/25/2010