---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL JURISDICTION."
description: "This Act increases the civil jurisdictional limit for the Court of Common Pleas from $50,000 to $75,000, as recommended by the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 191"
citation: "Delaware HB 191 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-07"
last_action: "2019-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fb957e1-c74b-42c2-8a9e-121f321c990a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47623"
source_hash: "346c1594c62058b350b2a323c088ecbdddfa9129cf62565eb5e99b03ff14685f"
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 191 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL JURISDICTION.

This Act increases the civil jurisdictional limit for the Court of Common Pleas from $50,000 to $75,000, as recommended by the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017.

## 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=47623&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB191)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-07** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-18** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-18** Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2019-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-23** 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/3fb957e1-c74b-42c2-8a9e-121f321c990a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).