Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that expands the codes related to official misconduct and establishes punishments in the state of Delaware.

Highlights:

• Establishes that a public servant is guilty of a misconduct when intending to obtain personal benefit or cause harm to another person if they knowingly (Sec. 1): 

• Commit an unauthorized exercise of official functions; 

• Refrains from deforming duty; 

• Performs an official function in a way to benefit the public servant’s own property; 

• Acts in a way intended to practice discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, disability; and

• Uses the public servant’s position of trust to engage in criminal conduct. 

• Requires any violation of the aforementioned conduct to be punishable by a Class A misdemeanor (Sec. 1). 

• Establishes a class F felony if the value of personal benefit received, or harm caused, is more than $1,500 (Sec. 1).

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