Delaware Senate Bill 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: Introduced on May 31 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-05-31 - Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Judicial Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

In 2017, 44,889 failure to pay capias issued for people who did not pay a fine, fee, cost, assessment, or restitution imposed for a non-felony offense. In the first 6 months of 2018, there were a total of 5,807 admissions to detention at all Level V facilities. Of these admissions, 129 were for failure to pay only and 595 were for failure to pay and another charge. When a capias is issued for nonpayment of a fine, courts currently may and do impose fees to cancel the warrant. When defendants are late paying their fines, the courts clerks also must forward the defendants name to the Department of Transportations Division of Motor Vehicles for license suspension.

An Act To Amend Title 10, Title 11, And Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Fines, Fees, Costs, Penalties, And Forfeitures.

Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Sen. David McBride [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]
Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]
Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-31		Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47561
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47561&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB39