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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHOKEHOLDS."
+description: "This Act creates the crime of Aggravated Strangulation. A person is guilty of Aggravated Strangulation if the person is a law-enforcement officer, and while acting within the person’s official capacity as a law-enforcement officer, knowingly or intentionally uses a chokehold on another person. Under this Act, a chokehold is only justifiable when the person reasonably believes deadly force is warranted in order to protect the life of a civilian or law-enforcement officer. Aggravated Strangulation is a Class D felony unless the law-enforcement officer using a chokehold causes serious physical injury or death to another person thereby elevating the crime to a Class C felony. This Act also makes clear that if a person is charged under this section, such a charge shall not preclude or limit the State or any other prosecuting agency from bringing other criminal charges against the person."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 350"
+citation: "Delaware HB 350 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Kendra Johnson", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-06-17"
+last_action: "2020-08-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/379a87e4-fb3d-49e6-967f-64080586a842"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48157"
+source_hash: "b7ffafb414bffa07e013be59a3458307fb91ac58438c28baef0b2f7d35acc170"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 350 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHOKEHOLDS.
+
+This Act creates the crime of Aggravated Strangulation. A person is guilty of Aggravated Strangulation if the person is a law-enforcement officer, and while acting within the person’s official capacity as a law-enforcement officer, knowingly or intentionally uses a chokehold on another person. Under this Act, a chokehold is only justifiable when the person reasonably believes deadly force is warranted in order to protect the life of a civilian or law-enforcement officer. Aggravated Strangulation is a Class D felony unless the law-enforcement officer using a chokehold causes serious physical injury or death to another person thereby elevating the crime to a Class C felony. This Act also makes clear that if a person is charged under this section, such a charge shall not preclude or limit the State or any other prosecuting agency from bringing other criminal charges against the person.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48157&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB350)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **16–5** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
+- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
+- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
+- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-17** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-18** Amendment HA 1 to HB 350 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2020-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-24** Amendment SA 1 to HB 350 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2020-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2020-06-25** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2020-06-25** Amendment SA 1 to HB 350 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 15 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-06-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO `passage`
+- **2020-08-13** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/379a87e4-fb3d-49e6-967f-64080586a842`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+