---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE’S WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT."
description: "This Act amends Delaware’s Whistleblower Protection Act to preclude an employer from reporting or threatening to report an employee’s citizenship or immigration status or a family members citizenship or immigration status to a federal, state, or local agency, in response to the employee engaging in a protected activity under Delaware’s Whistleblower Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 354"
citation: "Delaware HB 354 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-22"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/827e9855-5054-42b9-96c6-62cf437e35e4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79257"
source_hash: "758c0968291fe8c9205f0f8a74bd4dac9aa3ffb6945853e63b28d151d838bf9d"
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 354 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE’S WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT.

This Act amends Delaware’s Whistleblower Protection Act to preclude an employer from reporting or threatening to report an employee’s citizenship or immigration status or a family members citizenship or immigration status to a federal, state, or local agency, in response to the employee engaging in a protected activity under Delaware’s Whistleblower Act.

## 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=79257&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB354)
2. **HA 1 to HB 354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109386&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-22** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-28** Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-24** Re-Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-10-21** 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/827e9855-5054-42b9-96c6-62cf437e35e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).