---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EARLY VOTING."
description: "This Act establishes in-person early voting in Delaware beginning January 1, 2022. Registered voters will be allowed to vote in-person during at least 10 days before an election, up to and including the Saturday and Sunday immediately before the election at locations determined by the State Election Commissioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 38"
citation: "Delaware HB 38 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d14af65c-5c08-4d19-8d74-d71bd1e00d53"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37089"
source_hash: "db2d06662c32ddf927033d40913e5450246d40407b0a5a9118f6d57e51ccf884"
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 38 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EARLY VOTING.

This Act establishes in-person early voting in Delaware beginning January 1, 2022. Registered voters will be allowed to vote in-person during at least 10 days before an election, up to and including the Saturday and Sunday immediately before the election at locations determined by the State Election Commissioner.

## 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=37089&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB38)
2. **HA 1 to HB 38** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47237&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **34–6** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **16–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 38 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 38 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-19** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-03-19** Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 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/d14af65c-5c08-4d19-8d74-d71bd1e00d53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).