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SB198 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Animal Fighting.
Stephanie L. Hansen, John Walsh, Krista Griffith
Last updated 25 days ago
19 Co-Sponsors
This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a class E felony.
STATUS
Passed
SCR116 - Designating February 29, 2024, As "rare Disease Day" In The State Of Delaware.
Bryan Townsend, Paul S. Baumbach, Krista Griffith
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes February 29, 2024, as "Rare Disease Day" in Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
HCR80 - Recognizing Our Common Humanity And Our Concern Regarding The Israel-hamas War.
Melissa Minor-Brown, David P. Sokola, Bryan Townsend
Last updated 9 months ago
50 Co-Sponsors
This concurrent resolution expresses the State of Delaware General Assemblys concern for the loss of life in the Israel-Hamas war and calls on the legislature and the citizens of Delaware to recognize our common humanity and the shared strength of our diversity.
STATUS
Enrolled
HB142 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Crimes And Criminal Procedure
Eric A. Morrison, Sarah McBride, Bryan Townsend
Last updated about 1 year ago
35 Co-Sponsors
This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth of the victim is sufficient to explain, excuse, or justify the defendant's conduct, or contributes to or causes the defendant's mental state, or that the defendants reaction thereto constitutes a mental illness, mental defect, or mental disorder sufficient to excuse or justify the defendant's conduct (including under circumstances in which the victim made a nonviolent romantic or sexual advance toward the defendant or in which the defendant and the victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship). Sections 1 and 3 of this bill move the definitions for gender identity and sexual orientation currently in the hate crimes statute to the general definitions section of the Criminal Code to maintain standard definitions of these terms throughout the Criminal Code. Section 2 of this bill provides that in any prosecution or sentencing for an offense: (i) a defendant is not justified in using force against another based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth; (ii) for the purposes of determining whether there is a reasonable explanation or excuse for the existence of extreme emotional disturbance or other asserted mitigating factor or circumstance, such explanation or excuse is not reasonable if it is based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth; and (iii) a defendant does not suffer from a mental illness, mental defect, mental disorder, serious mental disorder, psychiatric disorder, or other impairment affecting or impacting the defendants mental state relating to any questions of intent, knowledge, capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the defendant's conduct, disturbance of the defendant's thinking, feeling or behavior, culpability, willpower to choose whether to do or refrain from doing an act, or ability to distinguish right from wrong, based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth.
STATUS
Passed
SCR34 - Congratulating The Winners Of The 32nd Annual Delaware High School Mock Trial Program.
Kyle Evans Gay, Darius Brown, Krista Griffith
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
This resolution congratulates the winning teams from the 2023 Delaware High School Mock Trial Program.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR17 - Recognizing March 2023 As "colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" In The State Of Delaware.
Nicole Poore, Paul S. Baumbach, Melissa Minor-Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 2023 as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB91 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Wiretapping And Electronic Surveillance.
Kyle Evans Gay, Krista Griffith, Kyra L. Hoffner
Last updated about 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Delaware law on the application to an authorized judge for the intercept of wire communications was written prior to the creation of the statutory divisions of Family, Fraud and Consumer Protection, and Civil Rights and Public Trust, within the Delaware Department of Justice. This would allow for the divisions leading, for example, sensitive fraud, public corruption, white collar, civil rights and hate crimes investigations to apply to the Superior Court for wire intercepts, and further makes clear that such investigations fall within the purview of the electronic surveillance chapter. Human trafficking is already included in the statute, but its investigations and prosecutions now fall under the jurisdiction of the Family Division.
STATUS
Passed
HB104 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Land Use Planning.
William G. Bush, Spiros Mantzavinos, John Walsh
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
The states pre-application process for land use process, known as PLUS, was created 20 years ago and has served to increase coordination among state and local agencies. In doing so, it has fulfilled its intent of providing predictability and consistency for the development community, especially in the area of major projects. Given that success, this bill assists in expediting the process for economic development projects in the State of Delaware with some exemptions from the PLUS process. A project located in Investment Level 1 or 2 under the Strategies for State Policies and Spending that is consistent with local zoning and any local comprehensive plan that will create full-time jobs is exempt from the pre-application process unless required by the local government or requested by the applicant.
STATUS
Passed
SCR107 - Honoring The Life And Work Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On The Occasion Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day".
Darius Brown, Elizabeth Lockman, Bryan Townsend
Last updated 9 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership, achievements, and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and urges all citizens of the First State to participate fittingly in the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 15, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB13 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Electric Vehicles.
Sophie Phillips, Sarah McBride, Debra J. Heffernan
Last updated 18 days ago
18 Co-Sponsors
This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant (meaning up to 300% of the federal poverty level for household income), financial assistance covering up to 90% of the purchase and installation costs may be covered. For all other applicants the program may offer assistance to cover up to 50% of the costs.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Delaware district HD-012
COMMITTEES
Delaware House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Krista Griffith is running for Vermont House Caledonia-3. Griffith was raised in Barre. She served on the Barre Unified Union School District board from 2005 to 2012. Griffith worked for Boynton Shell owned by her parents in Barre. Griffith and her husband Jason have 4 children. They live on the family farm in Walden which has been a working farm for over 200 years. The farm sells maple products and hosts events. Griffith wants to focus on making Vermont affordable with opportunities so future generations stay and thrive.read less
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