The House Judiciary Committee released all three bills heard on March 25th: HB 322, permitting detention of individuals posing safety risks at healthcare facilities, which must be circulated for signatures and announced on the House floor before advancing; HB 303, a cleanup bill extending union eligibility to juvenile probation officers, which proceeds directly to the floor; and HB 179, restructuring Delaware's sentencing guidelines commission, which was referred to Appropriations due to a fiscal note before it can reach the floor.
+ 2 more actions
Representative Cook argued that the bill's language covers all persons 'employed by' a healthcare facility — not just security staff — and that non-security workers such as nurses or doctors are not trained to safely detain someone, stating: 'I got a problem with this because we just went through this with civilian... doing civil arrests in our own neighborhoods.' Brian Clark responded that Bay Health trains security staff in a four-week program and all staff in eight hours of de-escalation and physical intervention training. Representative Gorman clarified the legislative intent was to protect immediate reactive actions, not to prescribe training for all employees. James Nutter added that the practical expectation is that staff would summon security rather than perform detentions themselves.
+ 3 more controversies
“There's other cops out there sitting right over here. They know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm just trying to make it safe all the way around for our medical workers because they're very important and don't go there to be putting their hands. It's not a nurse or a doctor who's going to work to say, I'm going to wrestle with somebody and, and try”
+ 4 more quotes
Subscribe to see all key actions, controversies, quotes, and what's next.
Sign in to subscribeGood morning, everybody. Welcome to the March 25th Judiciary Committee members. Please be aware there are microphones at your desk. When they are green, the mics will pick up what you are saying. When they are read, they will not. Make sure that if you have anything to say to your neighbor that you don't want heard on livestream, that you hit the button from green to red. Or if you want to say something and your mic is on red, turn it to green so that when you are speaking, the members of the public listening online can hear. This meeting is now called to order. Everyone can participate in person or virtually. If you want to participate virtually, you must register through the meeting link, which is on the GA's website. And if you'd like to present comments, you can do so within 24 hours after this hearing, written comments may be submitted to House Committee commentellaware.gov Any comments received within 24 hours will be included in the public record. All public comments must pertain to the subject matter of the bill. Members of the public physically present for the meeting may sign up on the speaker list…
Subscribe to unlock the full transcript, summary, and search across all Delaware committee hearings.
Sign in to subscribe