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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE VULNERABLE ADULT POPULATIONS COMMISSION."
+description: "This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee’s (“JLOSC”) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (“Commission”), whose purpose is to improve the response to and reduce the incidents of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation in this State. The Commission will be comprised of several members from key state agencies, legislators, and the private sector."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 298"
+citation: "Delaware HB 298 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Kendra Johnson", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Richard G. Collins", "Russell Huxtable", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-09-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bf70ba7-b101-40a3-8ca6-be730ab9fc36"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140903"
+source_hash: "e6e55f8111a59c187b005bbd9bd39953d1a86430e7c166e1a0205a3c7b863ff0"
+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 298 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE VULNERABLE ADULT POPULATIONS COMMISSION.
+
+This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee’s (“JLOSC”) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (“Commission”), whose purpose is to improve the response to and reduce the incidents of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation in this State. The Commission will be comprised of several members from key state agencies, legislators, and the private sector.
+
+## 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=140903&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB298)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141377&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-23** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-15** Amendment HA 1 to HB 298 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-06-11** Amendment HA 1 to HB 298 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-06-11** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-09-19** 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/1bf70ba7-b101-40a3-8ca6-be730ab9fc36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+