Delaware House Bill 115 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: Passed on November 8 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-11-08 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

United States Supreme Court case law and scientific research has changed how we think about juvenile delinquency. We know now that an adolescents brain is not fully developed until the mid-twenties which makes juveniles especially prone to poor decision-making. In the landmark case of Miller v. Alabama, in which the United States Supreme Court prohibited mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles on the rationale that children are inherently different than adults, the Court relied not only scientific research but on common sense and what any parent knows: kids will be kids.

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

Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]
Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]
Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]

2021-06-29 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-06-17 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-11-08		Signed by Governor
2021-06-29		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2021-06-23		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2021-06-17		Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2021-06-17		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2021-03-23		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2021-03-16		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48463
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48463&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB115
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#52321
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#52592