---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION."
description: "This Act expands the scope of the sexual extortion law to include: a) compelling or inducing another person to produce a visual depiction of the person or another who is nude or who is engaging in sexual conduct, and b) threatening to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, publish, transmit, or otherwise disseminate a visual depiction of a person who is nude, or who is engaging in sexual conduct."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 289"
citation: "Delaware SB 289 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Krista Griffith", "Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-09"
last_action: "2022-08-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2835bcad-b393-42ca-bb01-b54d0b0fd6bb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109465"
source_hash: "5f48be74debe8afbc87cf3f9bb7843e1e297cda874d544ecc580225c874ca2a9"
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 289 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION.

This Act expands the scope of the sexual extortion law to include: a) compelling or inducing another person to produce a visual depiction of the person or another who is nude or who is engaging in sexual conduct, and b) threatening to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, publish, transmit, or otherwise disseminate a visual depiction of a person who is nude, or who is engaging in sexual conduct.

## 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=109465&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB289)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-12** Re-Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-02** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-19** 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/2835bcad-b393-42ca-bb01-b54d0b0fd6bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).