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in committee · Delaware · Senate Jun 14, 2023

SB 173: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT FOR CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLE VIOLATIONS.

The General Assembly previously restricted municipal, town, and city police departments from operating speed enforcement equipment outside of its corporate limits. This Act completely restricts the ability of municipal, town, and city police departments to make arrests for speeding that occurs outside of the municipality, town, or city’s corporate limits. This Act also defines “corporate limits” for the purposes of 21 Del. C. § 701. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article IX, § 1 of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly to enact or amend general incorporation laws and special acts of incorporation, including municipal charters. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
Pete Schwartzkopf (D) Trey Paradee (D) Darius Brown (D) Eric Morrison (D) Marie Pinkney (D)
in committee · Delaware · House Jun 14, 2023

HB 214: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 RELATING TO FAMILY COURT COMMISSIONERS.

This Act increases the number of statewide Family Court Commissioners from 5 to 7 with at least 2 of the Commissioners being assigned to Kent County and 2 of the Commissioners being assigned to Sussex County. This Act also requires all newly appointed Commissioners and reappointed Commissioners, upon application for nomination by the Governor, to reside in the county where they seek to be appointed. This Act will take effect on July 1,2024.
Sean Lynn (D) Trey Paradee (D)
in committee · Delaware · House Jun 14, 2023

HB 37: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LANDLORD OBLIGATIONS AND TENANT REMEDIES.

It is the policy of this State that meaningful sanctions be imposed upon those who allow dangerous conditions and defects to exist in leased premises and that an effective mechanism be established for repairing these conditions and halting their creation. This Act allows tenants to bring an action of rent escrow to pay rent into the court because of asserted defects or conditions. Alternatively, the tenant may refuse to pay rent and raise the existence of the asserted defects or conditions as an affirmative defense to an action for summary possession or an action for nonpayment of rent. This Act requires the tenant to give proper notice and allow the landlord the opportunity to effect repairs. This Act requires the court to make appropriate findings of fact and to make any order that justice of the case may require, which may include termination of the lease and return of the leased premises to the landlord, order that the action for rent escrow be dismissed, order that the amount of rent be reduced in amount determined by the court to be fair and equitable, or order the landlord to make the repairs or correct the conditions complained of by the tenant.
Sherry Dorsey Walker (D) Val Longhurst (D) Spiros Mantzavinos (D) Marie Pinkney (D)
in committee · Delaware · House Jun 14, 2023

HB 217: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT INVESTIGATIONS.

This Act requires that parents and other persons under investigation for child abuse and neglect be given written and oral notice of the allegations made against them; the right to consult counsel prior to speaking with a DSCYF investigator; the right to refuse entry to the DSCYF investigator; the right to withhold consent to medical examinations of the children; the right to refuse to submit to a drug test; and the right to consult legal counsel prior to signing a safety plan.
Pete Schwartzkopf (D) Sean Lynn (D)
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