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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8, TITLE 10, TITLE 12, AND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHANGES TO THE TITLE “MASTER IN CHANCERY”."
+description: "This Act replaces references to “Masters” in the Court of Chancery with “Magistrate”."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 179"
+citation: "Delaware SB 179 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Kendra Johnson", "Nicole Poore", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-15"
+last_action: "2023-07-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f18820c-998f-48a4-a0f3-323e22104632"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140635"
+source_hash: "90990088a1e97cf361cf47683a9e77c10fc37993a3ad9497557c8e42534c73cb"
+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 179 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8, TITLE 10, TITLE 12, AND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHANGES TO THE TITLE “MASTER IN CHANCERY”.
+
+This Act replaces references to “Masters” in the Court of Chancery with “Magistrate”.
+
+## 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=140635&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB179)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- 2/3 — **34–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+- William J. Carson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-15** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-30** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2023-06-30** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 6 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-07-17** 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/4f18820c-998f-48a4-a0f3-323e22104632`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+