---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF MILITARY STATUS."
description: "This Act is intended to supplement protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding “military status” as a protected class for purposes of the State’s public accommodations, housing, insurance, education, and employment laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "Delaware HB 55 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-15"
last_action: "2025-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0e4f8e5-f00f-432d-a857-463f8f3d7e0b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142125"
source_hash: "cf4fd9c5d2b0f6d4bf4544e43c4612d3189a6288812ac8e17189e521027db57a"
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 55 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF MILITARY STATUS.

This Act is intended to supplement protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding “military status” as a protected class for purposes of the State’s public accommodations, housing, insurance, education, and employment laws.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- 2/3 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-15** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 55, and Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 7 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-17** Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-07-23** 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/c0e4f8e5-f00f-432d-a857-463f8f3d7e0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).