---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION."
description: "This Act is a Substitute for SB 142 and differs from SB 142 in the following ways:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 142"
citation: "Delaware SB 142 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Daniel B. Short", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-05"
last_action: "2025-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64d68fee-80a4-453e-be9e-59d1daadb056"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142427"
source_hash: "4794e8ba665cf565f19adb01601b2b5b03f83b75fdb3d6873d7967fa4cd6ed5c"
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 142 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION.

This Act is a Substitute for SB 142 and differs from SB 142 in the following ways:

## Version chain

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

1. **SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 142** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142492&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — 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.

- **2025-06-05** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 142, and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-12** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 ABSENT 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-09-19** 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/64d68fee-80a4-453e-be9e-59d1daadb056`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).