---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MILITARY JUDGES."
description: "The Delaware National Guard is in need of military judges and wants to use qualified military judges who are retired from the Delaware National Guard."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 183"
citation: "Delaware SB 183 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel B. Short", "Darius J. Brown", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-15"
last_action: "2024-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05f235b9-01f6-4221-9c6e-92c071fcbe5e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140645"
source_hash: "a06598b01886cfd165d924c49b7c6355ca3e809442d055b817dbad85b8bc5cf3"
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 183 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MILITARY JUDGES.

The Delaware National Guard is in need of military judges and wants to use qualified military judges who are retired from the Delaware National Guard.

## 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=140645&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB183)

## Votes

- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — 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 Veterans Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in Senate with 7 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-01-17** Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 14 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 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/05f235b9-01f6-4221-9c6e-92c071fcbe5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).