Delaware Senate Bill 256 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: Introduced on April 4 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-04-13 - Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensurate to the gravity of the misconduct. In addition, this statute conforms the discrimination language to the language used in the Hate Crimes statute. It also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Misconduct By Public Officials.

Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]
Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Rep. Eric Morrison [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-04-13		Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2022-04-04		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate

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