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Passed Delaware Firearm Legislation HB276

Legislation Overview

Title: An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Safe School And Recreation Zones.

Description: This Act is a follow-up to House Bill No. 201, as amended by House Amendment No. 3 and Senate Amendment No. 3, which was passed in 2023. That bill originally repealed the offense of Possession of a weapon in a Safe School and Recreation Zone, which was not actually a separate crime but rather operated as an aggravator and sentence enhancement on certain underlying crimes, and replaced it with Possession of a firearm in a Safe School and Recreation Zone which is a separate and self-contained criminal offense. Subsequently Senate Amendment No. 3 was passed and attached to the bill. That amendment separated the school zone from the recreation zone offenses and was intended to reinstate the original sentence enhancement scheme for offenses in a Safe Recreation Zone.

Session: 152nd General Assembly

Last Action: Signed by Governor

Last Action Date: March 7, 2024

Sponsors

Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.

2 sponsors: Peter Schwartzkopf (D); Sarah McBride (D);

Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 5% (2 of 41)

History

Chamber	Date	Action
	Mar 7, 2024	Signed by Governor
	Jan 18, 2024	Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
	Jan 17, 2024	Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
	Jan 11, 2024	Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate
	Jan 11, 2024	Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 3 NO 3 ABSENT
	Jan 10, 2024	Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
	Jan 4, 2024	Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House
	Jan 4, 2024	Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Texts

Type	Date	State Link	Text
Draft	not available	state link	bill text

Amendments

Title	Description	Date	State Link	Text	Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time

Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call

Description	Vote Date	Yea Votes	Nay Votes	No Votes	Absent	Passed
House Third Reading	01/11/2024	35	3	0	3	Yes
Baumbach, Paul (D) Yea Bolden, Stephanie (D) Yea Bush, William (D) Yea Carson, William (D) Yea Chukwuocha, Nnamdi (D) Yea Collins, Richard (R) Yea Cooke, Franklin (D) Yea Dorsey Walker, Sherry (D) Yea Dukes, Timothy (R) Yea Gray, Ronald (R) Yea Griffith, Krista (D) Absent Harris, Kerri (D) Yea Heffernan, Debra (D) Absent Hensley, Kevin (R) Yea Hilovsky, Jeff (R) Yea Johnson, Kendra (D) Yea Lambert, Larry (D) Yea Longhurst, Valerie (D) Yea Lynn, Sean (D) Yea Matthews, Sean (D) Yea Minor-Brown, Melissa (D) Yea Moore, Sherae'a (D) Yea Morris, Shannon (R) Nay Morrison, Eric (D) Yea Neal, DeShanna (D) Yea Osienski, Edward (D) Yea Parker Selby, Stell (D) Yea Phillips, Sophie (D) Yea Postles, Charles (R) Nay Ramone, Michael (R) Yea Romer, Cyndie (D) Yea Schwartzkopf, Peter (D) Yea Short, Daniel (R) Yea Shupe, Bryan (R) Yea Smith, Michael (R) Yea Spiegelman, Jeffrey (R) Yea Vanderwende, Jesse (R) Nay Williams, Kimberly (D) Yea Wilson-Anton, Madinah (D) Absent Yearick, Lyndon (R) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name
Senate Third Reading	01/18/2024	15	6	0	0	Yes
Brown, Darius (D) Yea Buckson, Eric (R) Nay Gay, Kyle (D) Yea Hansen, Stephanie (D) Yea Hocker, Gerald (R) Nay Hoffner, Kyra (D) Yea Huxtable, Russ (D) Yea Lawson, David (R) Nay Lockman, Elizabeth (D) Yea Mantzavinos, Spiros (D) Yea McBride, Sarah (D) Yea Paradee, W. Charles (D) Yea Pettyjohn, Brian (R) Nay Pinkney, Marie (D) Yea Poore, Nicole (D) Yea Richardson, Bryant (R) Nay Sokola, David (D) Yea Sturgeon, Laura (D) Yea Townsend, Bryan (D) Yea Walsh, John (D) Yea Wilson, David (R) Nay
resort votes by: party yeas nays name

Link: link to state bill page