Child Support/Failure to Pay/No Incarnation Unless Willful

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support. This Act also makes technical corrections to correct a typographical error in existing code and to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

Every action

9 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Dec 14, 2023CommitteeIntroduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House · House Judiciary
2. Jan 17, 2024CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits · House Judiciary
3. Jan 24, 2024HouseAmendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
4. Jan 25, 2024HouseAmendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
5. Jan 25, 2024HousePassed By House. Votes: 31 YES 5 NO 5 ABSENT31–5 vote
6. Jan 25, 2024CommitteeAssigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate · Senate Judiciary
7. Mar 20, 2024CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits · Senate Judiciary
8. Jun 27, 2024SenatePassed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO15–6 vote
9. Oct 23, 2024GovernorSigned by Governor

Roll calls

2 recorded votes: 2 on the floor, 0 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.

• SD Sherry Dorsey WalkerD Primary sponsor · District 3
• MM Melissa Minor-BrownD Joint sponsor · District 17
• KL Kyra L. HoffnerD Joint sponsor · District 14