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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES."
+description: "This bill adds the intentional touching of another person with semen to the definition of sexual contact. By doing so, the act of a person intentionally touching another person with semen without consent becomes the crime of unlawful sexual contact third degree."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 246"
+citation: "Delaware HB 246 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B Lopez", "Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-06-21"
+last_action: "2019-07-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba2b9206-188b-4691-9883-898a03b934f2"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47808"
+source_hash: "d852037078218b3e9567a2b3932114be41d191cae60e1b9a8de720b99518e734"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 246 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES.
+
+This bill adds the intentional touching of another person with semen to the definition of sexual contact. By doing so, the act of a person intentionally touching another person with semen without consent becomes the crime of unlawful sexual contact third degree.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47808&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB246)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-21** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-25** Re-Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-07-01** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2019-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2019-07-23** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba2b9206-188b-4691-9883-898a03b934f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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