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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TERMINATION AND TRANSFER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IN ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS."
+description: "This Act is the result of over 6 years of work and collaboration among the Family Court, Department of Justice, Department of Services for Youth, Children, and their Families, the Office of the Child Advocate, private adoption agencies, and the Family Law Section of the Delaware Bar Association to modernize Delaware’s termination of parental rights (“TPR”) statute."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 141"
+citation: "Delaware SB 141 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-05-18"
+last_action: "2021-09-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e81ed3c8-d6e4-48d7-8d12-52f688b8b6ff"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78730"
+source_hash: "ff12183f45c954aa4f2abbf718e6e10924d2bd8f7a1171f30e9e47de4e441976"
+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 SB 141 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TERMINATION AND TRANSFER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IN ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS.
+
+This Act is the result of over 6 years of work and collaboration among the Family Court, Department of Justice, Department of Services for Youth, Children, and their Families, the Office of the Child Advocate, private adoption agencies, and the Family Law Section of the Delaware Bar Association to modernize Delaware’s termination of parental rights (“TPR”) statute.
+
+## 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=78730&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB141)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **19–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-05-18** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `passage`
+- **2021-06-10** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2021-09-30** 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/e81ed3c8-d6e4-48d7-8d12-52f688b8b6ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+