republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-419.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS.	Citing the increasing number of false confessions recorded by the National Registry of Exonerations and recent science around adolescent brain development, several states across the nation have passed legislation to ban the use of deceptive interrogation techniques on juveniles. Deceptive tactics is limited to the knowing use of misleading statements about evidence or communications of false promises of leniency to extract a confession or other incriminating evidence from a youth suspected of breaking the law. To date, Delaware has yet to have a wrongful conviction case involving a false confession but according to groups such as the Innocence Project, wrongful convictions can often take decades to be revealed. Three other states, Illinois, Utah and Oregon, have passed similar legislation. Additional states, including Colorado and California, are currently considering similar legislation.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 419	Delaware HB 419 (151)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	9	2	2022-05-10	2022-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/202dc8a8-8912-4166-b7c6-32c8d6b0d442	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109488	376f9c42acf90a5d420242a7fb217999612152895a6db56ef7ccf92d82a79daa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 419 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS.

Citing the increasing number of false confessions recorded by the National Registry of Exonerations and recent science around adolescent brain development, several states across the nation have passed legislation to ban the use of deceptive interrogation techniques on juveniles. Deceptive tactics is limited to the knowing use of misleading statements about evidence or communications of false promises of leniency to extract a confession or other incriminating evidence from a youth suspected of breaking the law. To date, Delaware has yet to have a wrongful conviction case involving a false confession but according to groups such as the Innocence Project, wrongful convictions can often take decades to be revealed. Three other states, Illinois, Utah and Oregon, have passed similar legislation. Additional states, including Colorado and California, are currently considering similar legislation.

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 419 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 14–6 (pass) · upper
• SM — 34–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-10 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-15 Amendment HA 1 to HB 419 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 419 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-16 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO passage
• 2022-06-16 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2022-10-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/202dc8a8-8912-4166-b7c6-32c8d6b0d442. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).