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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS."
+description: "This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 267"
+citation: "Delaware HB 267 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "Eric Morrison", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-12-14"
+last_action: "2024-10-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1cf30f1-e950-43e5-b2e0-4aa88fc103e3"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140810"
+source_hash: "9057e1b11c2f9b996a89841b1cd3e0ec03ada04eff567225fa46dc8ee8746193"
+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 267 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.
+
+This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support.
+
+## 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=140810&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB267)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 267** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140884&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **31–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-14** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-24** Amendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-01-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-01-25** Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 5 NO 5 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-01-25** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
+- **2024-10-23** 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/c1cf30f1-e950-43e5-b2e0-4aa88fc103e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+