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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON."
+description: "This bill changes the definition of and class of felony for the crime of Strangulation from a class C felony to a Class D felony unless additional factors are present, then the crime elevates to a class B felony, punishable from 2-25 years in jail. This bill also adds the crime of suffocation."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 440"
+citation: "Delaware HB 440 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie L. Hansen", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-06-02"
+last_action: "2022-08-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a2453cd-cdd4-4620-a3ba-f8c64c4c57ca"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109579"
+source_hash: "89f3319c4330f856d33365a9a522d2d2f6ce2f539177ba156986fc6597e6a7c5"
+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 440 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON.
+
+This bill changes the definition of and class of felony for the crime of Strangulation from a class C felony to a Class D felony unless additional factors are present, then the crime elevates to a class B felony, punishable from 2-25 years in jail. This bill also adds the crime of suffocation.
+
+## 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=109579&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB440)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 440** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129796&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **17–2** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2022-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 440 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2022-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 440 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2022-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2022-06-21** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2022-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-08-04** 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/1a2453cd-cdd4-4620-a3ba-f8c64c4c57ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+