republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-195.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF BODY WORN CAMERAS.	This Act requires certain police officers and some certain employees of the Department of Correction and Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families to wear a body worn camera and to use the body worn camera to record interactions with a member of the public in accordance with the regulations to be established by the Council on Police Training. This Act requires state agencies to implement the statewide body worn camera program through the procurement of cameras, development of a central data storage program, and provision of necessary personnel as funding is available.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 195	Delaware HB 195 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Franklin D. Cooke Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Sean M. Lynn Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	15	2	2021-05-06	2021-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/e12b53fa-f9ab-4561-bc40-390486272982	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68664	811f20c3d7f0d1dc8309c0eeeeb200dc9fffdd771be4a9b104fdcc64d27fa8bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 195 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF BODY WORN CAMERAS.

This Act requires certain police officers and some certain employees of the Department of Correction and Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families to wear a body worn camera and to use the body worn camera to record interactions with a member of the public in accordance with the regulations to be established by the Council on Police Training. This Act requires state agencies to implement the statewide body worn camera program through the procurement of cameras, development of a central data storage program, and provision of necessary personnel as funding is available.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to HB 195 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-05-06 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-13 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-03 Amendment HA 1 to HB 195 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-04 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-11 Amendment HA 2 to HB 195 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-17 Amendment HA 2 to HB 195 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 Re-Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e12b53fa-f9ab-4561-bc40-390486272982. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).