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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE."
+description: "This Act permits a person who has been the victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration to apply for a sexual violence protective order if the person has a reasonable fear, based on specific conduct occurring contemporaneously or subsequent to the non-consensual sexual conduct or penetration, that the perpetrator of the sexual conduct will harm the petitioner in the future. An ex parte temporary order may be issued if a petitioner proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent poses an immediate and present danger of causing physical injury to the petitioner. The protective order is a civil remedy available whether or not the respondent has been charged with a crime and whether or not the petitioner reported the respondent’s conduct to law enforcement officials. The Act provides for an emergency ex parte hearing as well as a non-emergency hearing in Superior Court."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 264"
+citation: "Delaware HB 264 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Nicole Poore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-01-20"
+last_action: "2022-10-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a52dc7e-9c0d-4750-8f65-664d4440e6ce"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79113"
+source_hash: "f292953dfcdb1ea51305dc330da08e29b99754ec19668de9bfed815b768f95fa"
+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 264 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
+
+This Act permits a person who has been the victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration to apply for a sexual violence protective order if the person has a reasonable fear, based on specific conduct occurring contemporaneously or subsequent to the non-consensual sexual conduct or penetration, that the perpetrator of the sexual conduct will harm the petitioner in the future. An ex parte temporary order may be issued if a petitioner proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent poses an immediate and present danger of causing physical injury to the petitioner. The protective order is a civil remedy available whether or not the respondent has been charged with a crime and whether or not the petitioner reported the respondent’s conduct to law enforcement officials. The Act provides for an emergency ex parte hearing as well as a non-emergency hearing in Superior Court.
+
+## 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=79113&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1forHB264)
+2. **HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 264** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109584&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **36–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-20** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 264, and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-26** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-01-27** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-02** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2022-06-07** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2022-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-06-07** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-15** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2022-10-10** 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/2a52dc7e-9c0d-4750-8f65-664d4440e6ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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