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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTIONS.	This bill eliminates the "10-day hold" before registering a voter who is eligible to vote. This bill also allows the Department in lieu of the Board to remove voters who no longer reside in Delaware.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 135	Delaware HB 135 (149)	bill		enacted	John J. Viola Nicole Poore	1	7	2	2017-04-13	2017-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/b2634059-67c3-418e-9337-d1ed10348be8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25643	fbd0cfabe2166f0961c0713c2dcdc6e53c9961a393d0246062dc62d21cb4da55	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 135 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

This bill eliminates the "10-day hold" before registering a voter who is eligible to vote. This bill also allows the Department in lieu of the Board to remove voters who no longer reside in Delaware.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 23–15 (pass) · lower
• SM — 12–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John J. Viola — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-13 Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-05-16 Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 15 NO 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-17 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 3 NO 4 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-08-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2634059-67c3-418e-9337-d1ed10348be8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).