---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMMISSION."
description: "This Act adds a high school student to the AI Commission as a nonvoting member. The Chair of the Commission will appoint a student who is, or will be in the next school year, a tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade student in a public or private school in Delaware."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 16"
citation: "Delaware HB 16 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Josue O Ortega", "Krista Griffith", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Ray Seigfried"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e95daa2-e86d-4504-bb0b-f23fa6e355bd"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141828"
source_hash: "4901c5fa446835566d43d8a5e536b7a25ed7c2511bca34a0b6223a4ade7903ce"
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 16 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMMISSION.

This Act adds a high school student to the AI Commission as a nonvoting member. The Chair of the Commission will appoint a student who is, or will be in the next school year, a tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade student in a public or private school in Delaware.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **36–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** Introduced and Assigned to Technology & Telecommunications Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Reported Out of Committee (Technology & Telecommunications) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-13** 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/5e95daa2-e86d-4504-bb0b-f23fa6e355bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).