---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT."
description: "This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by expanding the jurisdictional application of the Act to employers with less than 100 employees and as few as 25 employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 92"
citation: "Delaware SB 92 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79655fdc-1b83-412a-aaa5-620ec657949e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130216"
source_hash: "4eba32b6ea03627925aa1fc85eccfbac0dd5999c526f8053e7e5fec7d229f10e"
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 92 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT.

This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by expanding the jurisdictional application of the Act to employers with less than 100 employees and as few as 25 employees.

## 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=130216&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB92)

## Votes

- SM — **24–1** (pass) · lower
- SM — **14–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-19** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 4 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 8 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 1 NO 16 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-08-17** 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/79655fdc-1b83-412a-aaa5-620ec657949e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).