---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION."
description: "This Act expands the criminal offense of impersonating a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, or fire officer to also prohibit impersonation of a federal officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 152"
citation: "Delaware HB 152 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Josue O Ortega", "Mara Gorman", "Marie Pinkney", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-15"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27f07c7d-a3b7-4ee9-aa34-c4b786d2a73a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142297"
source_hash: "776e37d11ab300e12b365f426015e5246d8d8703c02e91785d2bf265dab2d5af"
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 HB 152 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION.

This Act expands the criminal offense of impersonating a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, or fire officer to also prohibit impersonation of a federal officer.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HA 1 to HB 152** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142547&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-15** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 152 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-17** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Amendment HA 1 to HB 152 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-06-24** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-07-14** 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/27f07c7d-a3b7-4ee9-aa34-c4b786d2a73a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).