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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE."
+description: "This bill provides for gradual increases in the Delaware minimum wage to $15 over a period of several years."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 15"
+citation: "Delaware SB 15 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Edward S. Osienski", "Gerald L. Brady", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "John A. Kowalko", "Kimberly Williams", "Larry Lambert", "Marie Pinkney", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-09"
+last_action: "2021-07-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6834e30-6663-4cd6-a7ae-59c0dce79a67"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48445"
+source_hash: "ad947ee5972f9af22a79f13d52bb37ceda671360c8535dccfd8fbf1c7d01abef"
+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 15 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE.
+
+This bill provides for gradual increases in the Delaware minimum wage to $15 over a period of several years.
+
+## 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=48445&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB15)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48481&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **26–15** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **14–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
+- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-09** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-03-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-18** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 15 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
+- **2021-03-18** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-22** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-04** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-10** Amendment HA 1 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-10** Amendment HA 2 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-11** Amendment HA 3 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-11** Amendment HA 4 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-14** Amendment HA 5 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-14** Amendment HA 6 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-14** Amendment HA 7 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-14** Amendment HA 8 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-15** Amendment HA 9 to SB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 1 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 26 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 2 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 26 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 3 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 26 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 4 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 26 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 5 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 26 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 6 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 26 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 9 to SB 15 - Defeated By House. Votes: 16 YES 25 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 15 NO `passage`
+- **2021-07-19** 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/d6834e30-6663-4cd6-a7ae-59c0dce79a67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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