Delaware House Bill 59 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on June 2 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-06-02 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

This Act makes changes to the state’s list of statutory violent felonies (“list”). First, the Act adds two crimes, felony Promoting Sexual Solicitation of a Child and felony Resisting Arrest with Force or Violence, to the list. Second, the Act removes non-violent escape after conviction, lower level felony drug possession, and delivery of drug paraphernalia to a minor from the list. Additionally, the changes on line 16 are made to designate a previously undesignated paragraph, in keeping with the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Classification Of Offenses.

Rep. James Johnson [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]
Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]	Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. Harvey Kenton [R]
Rep. Joseph Miro [R]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. William Outten [R]	Rep. Charles Potter [D]
Rep. Michael Ramone [R]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]	Rep. Bryon Short [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]
Rep. Melanie Smith [D]	Rep. Stephen Smyk [R]	Rep. Jeffrey Spiegelman [R]	Sen. David Wilson [R]
Sen. Colin Bonini [R]	Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]	Sen. Robert Marshall [D]	Sen. Bryant Richardson [R]
Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]

2015-05-05 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-02	House	Signed by Governor
2015-05-05	Senate	Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2015-04-29	Senate	Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
2015-04-01	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2015-03-31	House	Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 41 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2015-03-31	House	Amendment HA 1 - Passed in House by Voice Vote
2015-03-31	House	Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2015-03-25	House	Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable
2015-03-19	House	Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/1e4d1cccadbe980185257de2004ad260?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+59/$file/legis.html?open
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/EngrossmentsforLookup/HB+59/$file/Engross.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/ce07754cf95c8b1285257e3c0066ccc8?OpenDocument