HB268 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ASSAULT.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Osienski
Last action: 2026-05-13
Official status: Out of Committee 5/13/26
Effective date: Not listed

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AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ASSAULT.

What This Bill Does

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ASSAULT.
This Act elevates the charge for assaulting a postal worker acting in the lawful performance of duty from assault in the third degree to assault in the second degree.

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Bill History

2026-05-13 Delaware General Assembly
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2026-03-24 Delaware General Assembly
Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT
2026-03-24 Delaware General Assembly
Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2026-01-28 Delaware General Assembly
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 8 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
2026-01-20 Delaware General Assembly
Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ASSAULT.
This Act elevates the charge for assaulting a postal worker acting in the lawful performance of duty from assault in the third degree to assault in the second degree.

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SPONSOR:

Rep. Osienski & Rep. Harris & Sen. Walsh

Reps. Bolden, K. Johnson, Ross Levin, Kamela Smith, K. Williams, Yearick, Griffith; Sens. Hoffner, Huxtable, Richardson, Wilson

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 268

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ASSAULT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend § 612, Title 11 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 612. Assault in the second degree; class C or D felony.

(a) A person is guilty of assault in the second degree when:

(1) The person recklessly or intentionally causes serious physical injury to another person; or

(2) The person recklessly or intentionally causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or

(3) The person intentionally causes physical injury to a law-enforcement officer, a volunteer firefighter, a full-time firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, fire police officer, fire marshal, correctional officer, a sheriff, a deputy sheriff, public transit operator, hospital security officer or constable, code enforcement constable,

or

a code enforcement

officer

officer, or a postal worker

who is acting in the lawful performance of duty. For purposes of this subsection, if a law-enforcement officer is off duty and the nature of the assault is related to that law-enforcement officer’s official position, then it shall fall within the meaning of “official duties” of a law-enforcement officer; or

SYNOPSIS

This Act elevates the charge for assaulting a postal worker acting in the lawful performance of duty from assault in the third degree to assault in the second degree.