---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM."
description: "This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, \"employer\" refers to the employer client of the employee leasing company or professional employment organization, and not to the employee leasing company or professional employment organization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 248"
citation: "Delaware SB 248 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Marie Pinkney", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-17"
last_action: "2024-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6fdcaec-7d9f-48de-8355-3f7984a0aeb9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141222"
source_hash: "eecdd3a36364e65b667f2ae982c77dd1eeae2e378d9125313ab2fb1b21eb6aa2"
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 248 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM.

This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of the employee leasing company or professional employment organization, and not to the employee leasing company or professional employment organization.

## 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=141222&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB248)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-17** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 248 `introduction`
- **2024-04-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-30** 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/b6fdcaec-7d9f-48de-8355-3f7984a0aeb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).