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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRONIC RECORDATION OF CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS."
+description: "Confessions are powerful evidence of guilt. Therefore, this Act adopts the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Electronic Recordation of Custodial Interrogations Act to promote truth-finding, promote efficiency, and protect constitutional values."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 215"
+citation: "Delaware HB 215 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Larry Lambert", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-05-27"
+last_action: "2021-11-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f283549b-8c83-4f77-a0c9-12d934c1b787"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78773"
+source_hash: "3835ba02c56afe9800eb4931925d28821689ab3794ca3597bb216a0996ff9622"
+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 215 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRONIC RECORDATION OF CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS.
+
+Confessions are powerful evidence of guilt. Therefore, this Act adopts the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Electronic Recordation of Custodial Interrogations Act to promote truth-finding, promote efficiency, and protect constitutional values.
+
+## 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=78773&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB215)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78954&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+3. **SA 1 to HB 215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=79023&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-05-27** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 215 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 215 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-06-22** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2021-06-29** Amendment SA 1 to HB 215 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-29** Amendment SA 1 to HB 215 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2021-11-08** 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/f283549b-8c83-4f77-a0c9-12d934c1b787`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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