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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS."
+description: "This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to \"life settlement brokers\" by replacing it with \"viatical settlement brokers\"."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 37"
+citation: "Delaware SB 37 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-14"
+last_action: "2021-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a98a6270-f3f7-480d-8a0f-a1f1c84508c1"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48297"
+source_hash: "6ad2cac10fda71c98dbee44405eeba6be101eec9e9de04b137dda1d8a80ccad9"
+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 37 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS.
+
+This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to "life settlement brokers" by replacing it with "viatical settlement brokers".
+
+## 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=48297&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB37)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-14** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-26** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-01-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-01-27** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-26** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-04-01** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** 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/a98a6270-f3f7-480d-8a0f-a1f1c84508c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+