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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF MILITARY STATUS."
+description: "This Act is intended to supplement protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding “military status” as a protected class for purposes of the State’s public accommodations, housing, insurance, education, and employment laws."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "HB 55"
+citation: "Delaware HB 55 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-15"
+last_action: "2025-07-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0e4f8e5-f00f-432d-a857-463f8f3d7e0b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142125"
+source_hash: "cf4fd9c5d2b0f6d4bf4544e43c4612d3189a6288812ac8e17189e521027db57a"
+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 55 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF MILITARY STATUS.
+
+This Act is intended to supplement protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding “military status” as a protected class for purposes of the State’s public accommodations, housing, insurance, education, and employment laws.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
+- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-15** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 55, and Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 7 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-06-17** Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-24** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2025-07-23** 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/c0e4f8e5-f00f-432d-a857-463f8f3d7e0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+