---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE AND CULTURE."
description: "This Act establishes the Delaware Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage and Culture."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 322"
citation: "Delaware HB 322 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-19"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14387d3e-2d25-4674-ace4-74d63707dba5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140964"
source_hash: "ea294a2d6f2f2e6e22fdf0d769654882ae17108615a5e0b4b96f46428e12c776"
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 322 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE AND CULTURE.

This Act establishes the Delaware Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage and Culture.

## 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=140964&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB322)

## Votes

- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-19** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-09-26** 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/14387d3e-2d25-4674-ace4-74d63707dba5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).