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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT."
description: "This Act provides for a clear and established procedure and time frame during which public employees may revoke their membership in an employee organization. This Act allows public employers and employee organizations to manage membership status and authorizations in a manner that will meet public employees desires while not disrupting the public employers or employee organizations operations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 314"
citation: "Delaware HB 314 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Edward S. Osienski", "Michael Mulrooney", "Robert Marshall"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a42ecff-9211-4745-aa4a-f434f6de7149"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26316"
source_hash: "13d2487c7c8407aed5f5e1033498e5ee6382995e346538c38cae33685389bcb5"
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 314 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT.
This Act provides for a clear and established procedure and time frame during which public employees may revoke their membership in an employee organization. This Act allows public employers and employee organizations to manage membership status and authorizations in a manner that will meet public employees desires while not disrupting the public employers or employee organizations operations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26316&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB314)
## Votes
- SM — **138** (pass) · upper
- SM — **353** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
- Robert Marshall — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-03-01** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-19** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 3 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO `passage`
- **2018-05-09** 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/3a42ecff-9211-4745-aa4a-f434f6de7149`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).