Delaware Senate Bill 134 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Passed on August 20 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-08-20 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

Under current Delaware law, the county sheriffs offices are required to appraise goods that are being levied upon to pay debts. In addition, the sheriffs offices can be held liable to pay the debts of a judgment debtor if, for example, they inadvertently neglect to make a return on a writ of execution. The appraisal provisions in Title 10 of the Delaware Code addressed in this act are out-of-date and impractical to implement. On the subject of the liability of the sheriff's offices, it is a questionable policy to require the sheriffs office to pay the debt of a judgment debtor for an inadvertent mistake in handling the procedure to levy upon and sell the debtors property. This act repeals the appraisal provisions in Title 10 related to the sheriffs offices. It also repeals provisions imposing liability on the sheriffs office to pay debt obligations of debtors who fail to pay their bills, when the sheriffs office commits an error through neglect.

An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Related To Courts And Judicial Procedure.

Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. Jack Walsh [D]

2019-06-30 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-06-19 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-08-20		Signed by Governor
2019-06-30		Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
2019-06-26		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2019-06-20		Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House
2019-06-19		Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT
2019-06-19		Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits
2019-06-04		Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47582
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47582&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB134
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#40972
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41274