Delaware House Bill 141 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: Passed on June 27 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-06-27 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act authorizes the Family Court to interview a child outside the presence of the parties for the purpose of obtaining the child's testimony and ascertaining the truth of a matter asserted by a party to a Protection from Abuse proceeding. The Court may permit counsel to be present during the interview and ask the child questions. The Court may also permit a party who is not present for the interview to submit questions of fact for the Court to use in interviewing the child. Interviews under this Act must be made a part of the record.

An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Family Court Procedure.

Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]
Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Sean Matthews [D]	Rep. Michael Mulrooney [D]
Rep. Edward Osienski [D]

2017-06-08 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-05-11 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-06-27		Signed by Governor
2017-06-08		Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
2017-06-08		Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits
2017-05-12		Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate
2017-05-11		Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT
2017-05-10		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits
2017-04-13		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25647
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25647&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB141
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#18604
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#18771