---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8, TITLE 10, TITLE 12, AND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHANGES TO THE TITLE “MASTER IN CHANCERY”."
description: "This Act replaces references to “Masters” in the Court of Chancery with “Magistrate”."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 179"
citation: "Delaware SB 179 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Kendra Johnson", "Nicole Poore", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-15"
last_action: "2023-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f18820c-998f-48a4-a0f3-323e22104632"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140635"
source_hash: "90990088a1e97cf361cf47683a9e77c10fc37993a3ad9497557c8e42534c73cb"
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 179 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8, TITLE 10, TITLE 12, AND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHANGES TO THE TITLE “MASTER IN CHANCERY”.

This Act replaces references to “Masters” in the Court of Chancery with “Magistrate”.

## 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=140635&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB179)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **34–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-30** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2023-06-30** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 6 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-07-17** 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/4f18820c-998f-48a4-a0f3-323e22104632`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).