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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC TRUST. This Act expands the Division of Civil Rights and Public Trusts responsibility to review deadly use of force incidents by law enforcement by adding review of cases involving serious physical injury. It also requires that if the Division issues a public report on the use of force, the report must include the race of the law enforcement officer who used force, the race of the individual on whom force was used, and whether race was a relevant or motivating factor. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 SB 148 Delaware SB 148 (151)
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Delaware SB 148 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC TRUST.

This Act expands the Division of Civil Rights and Public Trusts responsibility to review deadly use of force incidents by law enforcement by adding review of cases involving serious physical injury. It also requires that if the Division issues a public report on the use of force, the report must include the race of the law enforcement officer who used force, the race of the individual on whom force was used, and whether race was a relevant or motivating factor.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 2615 (pass) · lower
  • SM — 147 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
  • Melissa Minor-Brown — 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)
  • Kendra Johnson — 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, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 15 NO passage
  • 2021-11-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57c30a24-7c1a-41f2-8790-aa772f08fea9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).