---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE."
description: "This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Delaware SB 139 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-13"
last_action: "2025-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76d9d43c-7e76-4288-b97d-78ed098c3354"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142266"
source_hash: "8c712082e61e22bbf6f7f3c09b6e102819481e70a859725e3df5d796f5da1095"
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 139 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE.

This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following:

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-13** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-05** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-08-20** 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/76d9d43c-7e76-4288-b97d-78ed098c3354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).