---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LETHAL VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS."
description: "This Substitute Act incorporates House Bill No. 222, and also makes the following changes to House Bill No. 222:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 222"
citation: "Delaware HB 222 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Charles Potter Jr.", "David Bentz", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-05-03"
last_action: "2018-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2317eb88-65aa-4841-aab8-9e1f17471e8b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26634"
source_hash: "eb15d146fb4e4df57f39992850c580b7369db3410bcb9de8dbd8f534fb2f5f2c"
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 222 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LETHAL VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS.

This Substitute Act incorporates House Bill No. 222, and also makes the following changes to House Bill No. 222:

## 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=26634&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-03** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 222, and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-05** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-06** Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-07** Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-07** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Stricken in House
- **2018-06-07** Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Stricken in House
- **2018-06-07** Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2018-06-09** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 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/2317eb88-65aa-4841-aab8-9e1f17471e8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).