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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE OF DUTY DEATH BENEFITS."
+description: "This Act adds 911 dispatchers as “covered persons” for purposes of line of duty death benefits."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 451"
+citation: "Delaware HB 451 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Russell Huxtable", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 6
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-06-20"
+last_action: "2024-11-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94660366-1939-4c23-996e-0bd18c30088a"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141620"
+source_hash: "95e1ec2b5d045dd42eee8a92768cc33d7edadb6c4cbac6a7c8c6bc325f80ea21"
+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 451 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE OF DUTY DEATH BENEFITS.
+
+This Act adds 911 dispatchers as “covered persons” for purposes of line of duty death benefits.
+
+## 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=141620&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB451)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+- William J. Carson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2024-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-11-01** 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/94660366-1939-4c23-996e-0bd18c30088a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+