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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EARLY VOTING."
+description: "This Act establishes in-person early voting in Delaware beginning January 1, 2022. Registered voters will be allowed to vote in-person during at least 10 days before an election, up to and including the Saturday and Sunday immediately before the election at locations determined by the State Election Commissioner."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 38"
+citation: "Delaware HB 38 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-16"
+last_action: "2019-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d14af65c-5c08-4d19-8d74-d71bd1e00d53"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37089"
+source_hash: "db2d06662c32ddf927033d40913e5450246d40407b0a5a9118f6d57e51ccf884"
+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 38 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EARLY VOTING.
+
+This Act establishes in-person early voting in Delaware beginning January 1, 2022. Registered voters will be allowed to vote in-person during at least 10 days before an election, up to and including the Saturday and Sunday immediately before the election at locations determined by the State Election Commissioner.
+
+## 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=37089&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB38)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 38** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47237&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **34–6** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 — **16–5** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David Bentz — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
+- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-16** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 38 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-03-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 38 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-19** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-03-19** Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO `passage`
+- **2019-06-30** 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/d14af65c-5c08-4d19-8d74-d71bd1e00d53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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