republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-147.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO USE OF FORCE.	This Act codifies a reasonableness requirement for the use of force, both non-lethal and lethal. This is important when the state of mind is an issue in a criminal trial, such as when the judge or jury must decide as to what someone believed, knew, or intended at a given time.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 147	Delaware SB 147 (151)	bill		enacted	Marie Pinkney S. Elizabeth Lockman Sherry Dorsey Walker	1	12	2	2021-05-25	2021-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/561f44fd-71b6-4325-bbb6-cdb126bbad7e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78765	22d417990a46afd941aebfda292d9552bd709f0a90609aeb26445326d73c2deb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 147 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO USE OF FORCE.

This Act codifies a reasonableness requirement for the use of force, both non-lethal and lethal. This is important when the state of mind is an issue in a criminal trial, such as when the judge or jury must decide as to what someone believed, knew, or intended at a given time.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 25–16 (pass) · lower
• SM — 14–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-25 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO passage
• 2021-06-11 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2021-06-22 Amendment HA 1 to SB 147 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-25 Amendment HA 2 to SB 147 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-28 Amendment HA 3 to SB 147 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-29 Amendment HA 4 to SB 147 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-29 Amendment HA 2 to SB 147 - Defeated By House. Votes: 3 YES 38 NO amendment-failure
• 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 16 NO passage
• 2021-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/561f44fd-71b6-4325-bbb6-cdb126bbad7e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).