---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROHIBITIONS ON NEPOTISM IN STATE EMPLOYMENT."
description: "This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branches, as well as offices headed by other elected officials to develop and implement comparable policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 319"
citation: "Delaware HB 319 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Michael Ramone", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Sean Matthews", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f17bdf31-d7e6-4ce5-a6a6-6ae4f4ba65cb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140970"
source_hash: "c70282627b22e8b9b897e71573ddc78fc2c0f9d8ed1c0e3b0470c805bbf95d11"
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 319 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROHIBITIONS ON NEPOTISM IN STATE EMPLOYMENT.

This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branches, as well as offices headed by other elected officials to develop and implement comparable policies.

## 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=140970&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB319)
2. **HA 3 to HB 319** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141473&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Amendment HA 1 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-04-17** Amendment HA 2 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-23** Amendment HA 3 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 319 - Stricken in House
- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 2 to HB 319 - Stricken in House
- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 3 to HB 319 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-13** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-11-01** 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/f17bdf31-d7e6-4ce5-a6a6-6ae4f4ba65cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).