---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM."
description: "This Act, the Healthy Delaware Families Act, creates a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program. Delaware employees can access up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave through the State's paid leave trust fund for a qualifying event, including for the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "Delaware SB 1 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Marie Pinkney", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f64b581-09d6-4549-890a-902db45a274f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79186"
source_hash: "62f9417aee453f4abbe54b2302b2bb3d42edc23fe1b8c9c0f0846d133bc5e5be"
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 SB 1 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM.

This Act, the Healthy Delaware Families Act, creates a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program. Delaware employees can access up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave through the State's paid leave trust fund for a qualifying event, including for the following:

## 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=79186&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS2forSB1)
2. **HA 1 to SS 2 for SB 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=99322&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **14–7** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **29–11** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **14–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Charles "Bud" M. Freel — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-04** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 1 `introduction`
- **2022-03-04** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-14** Amendment HA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-04-14** Amendment HA 1 to SS 2 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-14** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 11 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-04-14** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2022-04-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2022-05-10** 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/3f64b581-09d6-4549-890a-902db45a274f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).