Delaware House Bill 397 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on July 11 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-07-11 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act permits the Superior Court to consider petitions out of sequence where the Attorney General consents and the Court determines consideration to be in the interest of justice. To ensure this exceptional sequencing provision is employed judiciously, the Court will only consider the consent of the Attorney General authorized by Delaware Department of Justice leadership (Attorney General, Chief Deputy Attorney General, State Prosecutor, or Chief County Prosecutors) in response to requests of Office of Defense Services leadership (Chief Defender, Chief Deputy Defender, Chief Conflicts Counsel) where a petitioner is represented by the Office of Defense Services, and in all other circumstances in response to privately retained counsel. This special authorization ensures individual petitioners do not unwittingly forego or disrupt their single opportunity for sentence review and further ensures consistency in modifications to sequencing.

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Criminal Procedure.

Rep. James Johnson [D]

Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]

2018-06-28 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-06-21 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-07-11		Signed by Governor
2018-06-28		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2018-06-28		Rules Suspended in Senate
2018-06-27		Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits
2018-06-21		Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate
2018-06-21		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2018-06-06		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits
2018-05-02		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26611
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26611&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB397
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#29987
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#30161