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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION."
+description: "This Act expands the scope of the sexual extortion law to include: a) compelling or inducing another person to produce a visual depiction of the person or another who is nude or who is engaging in sexual conduct, and b) threatening to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, publish, transmit, or otherwise disseminate a visual depiction of a person who is nude, or who is engaging in sexual conduct."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 289"
+citation: "Delaware SB 289 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Krista Griffith", "Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-05-09"
+last_action: "2022-08-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2835bcad-b393-42ca-bb01-b54d0b0fd6bb"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109465"
+source_hash: "5f48be74debe8afbc87cf3f9bb7843e1e297cda874d544ecc580225c874ca2a9"
+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 289 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION.
+
+This Act expands the scope of the sexual extortion law to include: a) compelling or inducing another person to produce a visual depiction of the person or another who is nude or who is engaging in sexual conduct, and b) threatening to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, publish, transmit, or otherwise disseminate a visual depiction of a person who is nude, or who is engaging in sexual conduct.
+
+## 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=109465&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB289)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-12** Re-Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-05-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2022-06-02** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2022-08-19** 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/2835bcad-b393-42ca-bb01-b54d0b0fd6bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+