---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS."
description: "This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 267"
citation: "Delaware HB 267 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "Eric Morrison", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-14"
last_action: "2024-10-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1cf30f1-e950-43e5-b2e0-4aa88fc103e3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140810"
source_hash: "9057e1b11c2f9b996a89841b1cd3e0ec03ada04eff567225fa46dc8ee8746193"
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 267 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.

This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support.

## 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=140810&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB267)
2. **HA 1 to HB 267** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140884&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **31–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-14** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** Amendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-01-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 5 NO 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-01-25** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2024-10-23** 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/c1cf30f1-e950-43e5-b2e0-4aa88fc103e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).