---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RACIAL EQUITY CONSORTIUM."
description: "This Act establishes the Racial Equity Consortium (“Consortium”) for the purposes of studying and making recommendations to address the disparities and inequities faced by persons of color in this State."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 375"
citation: "Delaware HB 375 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-07"
last_action: "2022-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8d70ccf-8461-44ac-868a-3bd1fbe0e88a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=99330"
source_hash: "e82422418c43288fce06ac6a59d29b72d3365c80795e7137e8d5b635b002da13"
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 375 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RACIAL EQUITY CONSORTIUM.

This Act establishes the Racial Equity Consortium (“Consortium”) for the purposes of studying and making recommendations to address the disparities and inequities faced by persons of color in this State.

## 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=99330&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB375)
2. **HA 1 to HB 375** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109519&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-07** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-05-12** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 375 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-07** Amendment HA 1 to HB 375 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-07** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-15** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-30** 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/b8d70ccf-8461-44ac-868a-3bd1fbe0e88a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).