---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRUANCY."
description: "This Act is a recommendation of 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 250"
citation: "Delaware HB 250 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-27"
last_action: "2020-02-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58918f96-f564-4ebd-84c8-7df3d3287861"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47856"
source_hash: "3e707ded9283360bb8851d09862fe3966a9617510ad6c4d0840468f8cb8b4d19"
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 250 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRUANCY.

This Act is a recommendation of 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=47856&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB250)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-27** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-12-19** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2020-02-10** 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/58918f96-f564-4ebd-84c8-7df3d3287861`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).