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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPASSIONATE LEAVE"
+description: "This bill increases the amount of Compassionate Leave for eligible employees of the State upon the death of an immediate family member."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 177"
+citation: "Delaware HB 177 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-05-18"
+last_action: "2023-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bbbe023-fb58-4171-91df-b0d664409def"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140429"
+source_hash: "eebe5194d496a5bef3eeae3b988d709bbd290466644d55e40fad9c2f33991e7b"
+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 177 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
+
+This bill increases the amount of Compassionate Leave for eligible employees of the State upon the death of an immediate family member.
+
+## 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=140429&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB177)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 177** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140737&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **26–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-05-18** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-14** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 177 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2023-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 177 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 12 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-28** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-28** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
+- **2023-06-30** 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/2bbbe023-fb58-4171-91df-b0d664409def`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+