---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR STATE EMPLOYEES."
description: "This bill amends merit compensation bargaining unit by allowing non-uniformed correctional employees, including correctional counselors, correctional administrative staff and similar occupations, to bargain over compensation. These correctional employees are presently the only correctional employees excluded from compensation bargaining."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 214"
citation: "Delaware HB 214 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Mulrooney", "Robert Marshall"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-08"
last_action: "2017-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65474491-db41-47be-b829-af32d79dde13"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25921"
source_hash: "fcc82d7b0a50379e6f36b3dc5f0531157bb1997736e0d02a4bb5422d0e8f7fd7"
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 214 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.

This bill amends merit compensation bargaining unit by allowing non-uniformed correctional employees, including correctional counselors, correctional administrative staff and similar occupations, to bargain over compensation. These correctional employees are presently the only correctional employees excluded from compensation bargaining.

## 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=25921&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB214)

## Votes

- SM — **14–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
- Robert Marshall — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-08** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 214 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 214 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-23** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2017-08-09** 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/65474491-db41-47be-b829-af32d79dde13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).