---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE SERVICE WORKER PROTECTION ACT."
description: "This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 233"
citation: "Delaware SB 233 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-06"
last_action: "2024-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/937600e6-a978-4f24-a54f-5abfeb5cf5f8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140990"
source_hash: "6cabec505af9541ec4332a6055e28060bb030e7ad12821118c0a8e026cb09489"
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 233 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE SERVICE WORKER PROTECTION ACT.

This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:

## 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=140990&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB233)
2. **SA 1 to SB 233** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141224&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **25–13** (pass) · lower
- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-06** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 233 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-04-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 233 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 13 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-30** 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/937600e6-a978-4f24-a54f-5abfeb5cf5f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).