2025-2026 Regular Session • Delaware Legislature
HB43: An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Appeals.
Legislative Summary
This bill adopts an inmate mailbox rule similar to the federal inmate mailbox rule. If a pro se inmate files an appeal while incarcerated, the date of filing will be counted as the date that that the inmate gave the appeal to the DOC officials for mailing rather than the date that the Courts receive the appeal.
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Bill History
3/6/2025
Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House
3/12/2025
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits
3/13/2025
Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT
3/13/2025
Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
Roll Call Votes
House Third Reading
3/13/2025
36
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
5
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(3/13/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Judiciary(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 15
Primary Sponsor
Eric Morrison
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (14)
Cyndie Romer
Democrat
Mara Gorman
Democrat
Marie Pinkney
Democrat
Bryan Townsend
Democrat
Krista Griffith
Democrat
Sean Lynn
Democrat
Larry Lambert
Democrat
Frank Burns
Democrat
Claire Snyder-Hall
Democrat
Melanie Ross Levin
Democrat
Kerri Harris
Democrat
Kimberly Williams
Democrat
David Sokola
Democrat
Stephanie Hansen
Democrat