Delaware House Bill 350 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-1)
Status: Passed on August 13 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-08-13 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act creates the crime of Aggravated Strangulation. A person is guilty of Aggravated Strangulation if the person is a law-enforcement officer, and while acting within the persons official capacity as a law-enforcement officer, knowingly or intentionally uses a chokehold on another person. Under this Act, a chokehold is only justifiable when the person reasonably believes deadly force is warranted in order to protect the life of a civilian or law-enforcement officer. Aggravated Strangulation is a Class D felony unless the law-enforcement officer using a chokehold causes serious physical injury or death to another person thereby elevating the crime to a Class C felony. This Act also makes clear that if a person is charged under this section, such a charge shall not preclude or limit the State or any other prosecuting agency from bringing other criminal charges against the person.

An Act To Amend Title 11 The Delaware Code Relating To Chokeholds.

Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]
Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]
Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. David McBride [D]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]
Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Sen. Catherine Cloutier [R]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]
Rep. Andria Bennett [D]	Rep. David Bentz [D]	Rep. Gerald Brady [D]	Rep. William Bush [D]
Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Earl Jaques [D]
Rep. Quinton Johnson [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]
Rep. Sean Matthews [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]
Rep. Raymond Seigfried [D]	Rep. John Viola [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

2020-06-25 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 16 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-06-25 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-08-13		Signed by Governor
2020-06-25		Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO
2020-06-25		Amendment SA 1 to HB 350 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 15 NO
2020-06-25		Suspension of Rules in Senate
2020-06-25		Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
2020-06-24		Amendment SA 1 to HB 350 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2020-06-22		Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2020-06-18		Amendment HA 1 to HB 350 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2020-06-17		Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48157
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48157&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB350
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41618
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41630