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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROTECTION OF WITNESSES AND CRIME VICTIMS."
+description: "This Act adds victims of human trafficking to the Address Confidentiality Act. Under this program, certain crime victims are provided a substitute address by the Department of Justice so as to protect the participant’s actual address from public disclosure. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 359"
+citation: "Delaware HB 359 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Nicole Poore"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-03-24"
+last_action: "2022-09-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5be0d5da-8641-45ea-927d-fa774240a612"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=89284"
+source_hash: "ee56213cd5f59a510e63de5896b22a583f847e42fc0dfac800244041c67b27d9"
+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 359 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROTECTION OF WITNESSES AND CRIME VICTIMS.
+
+This Act adds victims of human trafficking to the Address Confidentiality Act. Under this program, certain crime victims are provided a substitute address by the Department of Justice so as to protect the participant’s actual address from public disclosure. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
+
+## 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=89284&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB359)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-03-24** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-07** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-14** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-04-14** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2022-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-09-09** 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/5be0d5da-8641-45ea-927d-fa774240a612`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+