Proposed Delaware Firearm Legislation SB209
Legislation Overview
Title: An Act To Amend Title 11, Part 1, Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Criminal Code.
Description: Delawares existing Criminal Code was adopted in 1973 and was based on the Model Penal Code. Since that time, the Criminal Code has quadrupled in size and expanded to other parts of the Code without consideration to the general effects of the change on the Criminal Codes overall structure, its terminology, or its application, creating numerous inconsistencies, redundancies, ambiguities and contradictions. In 2014, the General Assembly established the Criminal Justice Improvement Committee to review opportunities for efficiencies in the Delaware Criminal Code, including identifying: disproportionate, redundant, outdated, duplicative, or inefficient statutes and crimes that should or should not constitute potential jail time. The Criminal Justice Improvement Committee Working Group was created to accomplished the Criminal Justice Improvement Committees stated goals and has worked diligently for the last three years, in concert with other criminal justice stakeholders, to restore the criminal code to a clear, readable, and proportional code. The recommendations found in their Final Report are the basis for this Act and its companion bill.
Session: 149th General Assembly
Last Action: Introduced and Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate
Last Action Date: May 10, 2018
Sponsors
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22 sponsors: Harris McDowell (D); Margaret Henry (D); David McBride (D); Nicole Poore (D); James Johnson (D); John Mitchell (D); Melanie Smith (D); Colin Bonini (R); Brian Bushweller (D); Bruce Ennis (D); Stephanie Hansen (D); Gary Simpson (R); David Sokola (D); John Walsh (D); Paul Baumbach (D); Stephanie Bolden (D); Gerald Brady (D); Debra Heffernan (D); Quinton Johnson (D); John Kowalko (D); Sean Lynn (D); Sean Matthews (D);
Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 54% (22 of 41)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| May 10, 2018 | Introduced and Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Draft | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
