Delaware Senate Bill 60 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 5 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-05 - Introduced and Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgetsoften without so much as charging you with a crime. This Act protects individual liberty and property rights by standardizing forfeitures across all crimes, simplifying procedures, and addressing counterproductive incentives in the law that distort policing priorities. Importantly, this Act does not change the authority of law enforcement to seize property suspected of being associated with crime or limit in any way prosecutors ability to charge and prosecute suspected criminals. Moreover, it ensures that those individuals proven guilty of a crime do not keep the fruits of their crime. In doing so, it strikes the right balance between the individual property rights and public safety.

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Asset Forfeiture Process And Provate Property Protection.

Sen. Colin Bonini [R]	Sen. Brian Bushweller [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]
Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Sen. David Lawson [R]	Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]
Sen. Harris McDowell [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Sen. Gary Simpson [R]	Rep. Andria Bennett [D]
Rep. David Bentz [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. James Johnson [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]
Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Rep. William Outten [R]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Rep. Bryon Short [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-05		Introduced and Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate

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Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25619&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB60