---
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).