---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING THE DELIVERY OF NOTICES BY THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION."
description: "This Act allows the Department of Labor (\"Department\") to deliver notice by methods other than through mail to reduce costs by using e-mail delivery for certain notices and makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 148"
citation: "Delaware HB 148 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-09"
last_action: "2019-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb2a44bc-781c-4317-b740-614ba4167d6d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47452"
source_hash: "736112399a8fa0fc6dc1f279cfa0aa87ce68a5763c2aa60708354c5304076c9d"
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 148 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING THE DELIVERY OF NOTICES BY THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.

This Act allows the Department of Labor ("Department") to deliver notice by methods other than through mail to reduce costs by using e-mail delivery for certain notices and makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

## 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=47452&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB148)

## Votes

- SM — **12–9** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-06-21** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 9 NO `passage`
- **2019-06-30** 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/bb2a44bc-781c-4317-b740-614ba4167d6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).