Delaware House Bill 2 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on May 18 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-05-18 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill increases the penalties for animal fighting, baiting, and attendance from a class F felony to a class E felony, and increases the penalties for being present where an exhibition of fighting and/or baiting is being prepared and knowing that the exhibition is about to take place from a class G felony to a class F felony. This bill also expands the penalty provisions to allow a court to order persons convicted under 1326 to attend mandatory counseling and/or psychological treatment, and to pay the costs of treatment and/or counseling.

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Specific Offenses, Animals, And Penalties.

Sen. Colin Bonini [R]	Rep. Robert Gilligan [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]
Sen. Robert Marshall [D]	Rep. Joseph Miro [R]	Rep. William Oberle [R]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]
Rep. Daniel Short [R]

2010-05-12 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2009-03-26 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-05-18		Signed by Governor
2010-05-12		Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-05-12		Amendment SA 1 - Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 9 YES 12 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-05-12		Amendment SA 1 defeated
2010-05-12		Amendment SA 1 - Introduced in Senate
2010-04-21		Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
2009-04-07		Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2009-03-26		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 38 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2009-03-17		Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
2009-03-10		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/7ea210ded505b45e8525755b0051ba76?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+2/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/c4eb8d17b63a120b852575850070b7c1?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/b00bb6cd8007b52d85257721007325df?OpenDocument