Delaware House Bill 10 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: Introduced on June 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-06-19 - Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [HTML]

United States Supreme Court case law and scientific research has changed how we think about juvenile delinquency. We know now that an adolescents brain is not fully developed until the mid-twenties which makes juveniles especially prone to poor decision-making. In the landmark case of Miller v. Alabama, in which the United States Supreme Court prohibited mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles on the rationale that children are inherently different than adults, the Court relied not only scientific research but on common sense and what any parent knows: kids will be kids.

An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Juvenile Prosecution.

Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]
Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Sen. Darius Brown [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]
Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-19		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits
2019-06-18		Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 10, and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

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Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47381&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB10
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47755&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1