---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LETHAL VIOLENCE PROTECTIVE ORDERS."
description: "This Act changes the period of time for which relief may be granted under a lethal violence protective order from 1 year to 5 years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Delaware SB 82 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "Mara Gorman", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb9cf2b6-7f57-4afb-baf5-0ffb4168a76f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142033"
source_hash: "260b8f9b9ad10ae8fd8260f58606732cc6db8758e316310a3369f04b7f9f95fc"
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 82 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LETHAL VIOLENCE PROTECTIVE ORDERS.

This Act changes the period of time for which relief may be granted under a lethal violence protective order from 1 year to 5 years.

## Version chain

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

1. **SA 1 to SB 82** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142296&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-03** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 82 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 82 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NO 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/bb9cf2b6-7f57-4afb-baf5-0ffb4168a76f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).