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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 419"
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citation: "Delaware HB 419 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-05-10"
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last_action: "2022-10-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/202dc8a8-8912-4166-b7c6-32c8d6b0d442"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109488"
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source_hash: "376f9c42acf90a5d420242a7fb217999612152895a6db56ef7ccf92d82a79daa"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 419 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=109488&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB419)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 419** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129731&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **14–6** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **34–7** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-05-10** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-17** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-15** Amendment HA 1 to HB 419 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-06-16** Amendment HA 1 to HB 419 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO `passage`
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- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
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- **2022-10-10** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/202dc8a8-8912-4166-b7c6-32c8d6b0d442`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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