republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-215.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 215	Delaware HB 215 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Larry Lambert Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha	3	12	3	2021-05-27	2021-11-08	openstates	ocd-bill/f283549b-8c83-4f77-a0c9-12d934c1b787	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78773	3835ba02c56afe9800eb4931925d28821689ab3794ca3597bb216a0996ff9622	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. HA 1 to HB 215 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to HB 215 (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/f283549b-8c83-4f77-a0c9-12d934c1b787. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).