---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH, ORDER, AND DECENCY."
description: "This Act modernizes the hate crime statute and consolidates related offenses together with the hate crime statute in the Criminal Code."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Delaware SB 144 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Marie Pinkney", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-05-20"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/237e6fc7-89be-4c4f-8395-c70b16aa3744"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78756"
source_hash: "372d378f87ee67318f28f93a07d03781219a0d0db27fc26219164f8bce4ac810"
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 144 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH, ORDER, AND DECENCY.

This Act modernizes the hate crime statute and consolidates related offenses together with the hate crime statute in the Criminal Code.

## 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=78756&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB144)
2. **HA 2 to SB 144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129791&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **SA 1 to SB 144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78905&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **37–2** (pass) · lower
- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-20** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 144 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 144 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-16** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28** Amendment HA 1 to SB 144 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-17** Tabled in Committee
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2022-06-22** Amendment HA 2 to SB 144 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to SB 144 - Stricken in House
- **2022-06-23** Amendment HA 2 to SB 144 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `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/237e6fc7-89be-4c4f-8395-c70b16aa3744`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).