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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PENSIONS FOR THE STATE JUDICIARY."
+description: "This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 174. Like Senate Bill No. 174, this Act adds Justices of the Peace, Commissioners in Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas, and Magistrates in Chancery to the State Judicial Pension Plan."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 174"
+citation: "Delaware SB 174 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sean M. Lynn", "Timothy D. Dukes", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-09-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3eb0b5a-45ed-4673-a884-8df9773871b3"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140931"
+source_hash: "5ad54f15fbad5027fafa2f3c84739bb6fe58f6742a811c07fa8743aaff847ba4"
+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 174 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PENSIONS FOR THE STATE JUDICIARY.
+
+This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 174. Like Senate Bill No. 174, this Act adds Justices of the Peace, Commissioners in Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas, and Magistrates in Chancery to the State Judicial Pension Plan.
+
+## 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=140931&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB174)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
+- Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+- William J. Carson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-29** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 174, and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-05-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-05-16** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-09-26** 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/a3eb0b5a-45ed-4673-a884-8df9773871b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+