Bill Text: DE SB200 | 2011-2012 | 146th General Assembly | Draft
Bill Title: An Act To Amend Title 13 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Fatal Incident Review Team.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-05 - Signed by Governor [SB200 Detail]
Download: Delaware-2011-SB200-Draft.html
SPONSOR: |
Sen. Blevins & Rep. Barbieri & Sen. Sorenson & Rep. Hudson |
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DELAWARE STATE SENATE 146th GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
SENATE BILL NO. 200 |
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FATAL INCIDENT REVIEW TEAM. |
Section 1.Amend §105(b), Title 13 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and additions as shown by underlining as follows:
(b)
There shall be a Fatal Incident Review Team that will be co-chaired by 3
members of the Coordinating Council to be elected by the Council. In addition
to the co-chairs, the Review Team shall consist of 87 other core
members: the Attorney General or the Attorney General's designee, the Director
of the Division of Family Services or the Director's designee, a victim
advocate appointed by the Council, the Chief Judge of the Family Court or the
Chief Judge's designee, the Chief Magistrate of the Justice of the Peace Courts
or the Chief Magistrate's designee, the Secretary of the Department of
Education or the Secretary's designee, the Director of the Division of
Substance Abuse and Mental Health, or the Director's designee and a
law-enforcement officer to be appointed by the Delaware Chiefs of Police
Council. All members of the Review Team, plus other individuals invited to
participate, shall be considered part of the review panel for a particular case
or incident. The Review Team shall invite other law-enforcement personnel to
serve and participate as full members of a review panel in any case in which a
law-enforcement agency has investigated the death or near death under review or
any prior domestic violence incident involving the decedent or near death
victim. The Review Team may also invite other relevant persons to serve on an
ad-hoc basis and participate as full members of the review panel for a
particular review. Such persons may include, but are not limited to,
individuals with particular expertise that would be helpful to the review
panel, representatives from those organizations or agencies that had contact
with or provided services to the individual prior to that individual's own
death or near death, that individual's abusive partner or family member and/or
the alleged perpetrator of the death or near death.
SYNOPSIS
The Fatal Incident Review Team is a multiagency team that reviews all deaths and near deaths that occur as a result of domestic violence. This Act reduces the core number of Review Team members from eight to seven, by eliminating the requirement that a representative from the Department of Education serve as a mandatory member of the Fatal Incident Review.The Department of Education would serve in an ad hoc role as needed. |
Author: Sen. Blevins