---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES AND SEXUAL RELATIONS IN A DETENTION FACILITY."
description: "This Act makes a technical correction to SB 169 by changing the designations of the new statutes and incorporates Senate Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 169."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "Delaware SB 169 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Kimberly Williams", "Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-05-03"
last_action: "2018-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8d0568d-c53b-40f5-8041-6254c71bd8e3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26620"
source_hash: "6812873bed3067639cdf1e72fe05e352b2554aee7332f8ea831702a76eea85b8"
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 169 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES AND SEXUAL RELATIONS IN A DETENTION FACILITY.

This Act makes a technical correction to SB 169 by changing the designations of the new statutes and incorporates Senate Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 169.

## 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=26620&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-03** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 169 `introduction`
- **2018-05-03** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-05-08** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2018-08-29** 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/c8d0568d-c53b-40f5-8041-6254c71bd8e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).