---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPASSIONATE LEAVE"
description: "This bill increases the amount of Compassionate Leave for eligible employees of the State upon the death of an immediate family member."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 177"
citation: "Delaware HB 177 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-18"
last_action: "2023-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bbbe023-fb58-4171-91df-b0d664409def"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140429"
source_hash: "eebe5194d496a5bef3eeae3b988d709bbd290466644d55e40fad9c2f33991e7b"
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 HB 177 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPASSIONATE LEAVE

This bill increases the amount of Compassionate Leave for eligible employees of the State upon the death of an immediate family member.

## 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=140429&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB177)
2. **HA 1 to HB 177** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140737&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
- SM — **26–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-18** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-14** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 177 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 177 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 12 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-28** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-28** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2023-06-30** 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/2bbbe023-fb58-4171-91df-b0d664409def`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).