---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY."
description: "This Act clarifies various aspects of the State’s unclaimed property laws, specifically:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 281"
citation: "Delaware SB 281 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Kyle Evans Gay", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-04"
last_action: "2022-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7c6cb7f-fcd5-4bed-bc6d-1b27bcc941b8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109437"
source_hash: "1157fe9826f43e217b56bbcce528bbd9daf4437504c713d5887b4dbad0c84a36"
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 281 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.

This Act clarifies various aspects of the State’s unclaimed property laws, specifically:

## 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=109437&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB281)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-04** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-10** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-30** 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/e7c6cb7f-fcd5-4bed-bc6d-1b27bcc941b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).