---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENAMING THE STATE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION AND THE DIVISION OF HUMAN RELATIONS."
description: "This Act does the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "Delaware SB 236 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Ernesto B. Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3aca8071-861b-4449-9e65-2cdb3866491f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79176"
source_hash: "1aa0d709189ab0043755fba84e880efb2a80fddc4183c1c9365c89b982f56e2f"
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 236 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENAMING THE STATE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION AND THE DIVISION OF HUMAN RELATIONS.

This Act does 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=79176&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB236)
2. **SA 1 to SB 236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=79240&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 236 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 236 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-05-12** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-14** 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/3aca8071-861b-4449-9e65-2cdb3866491f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).