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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PENSIONS.	This bill clarifies that a Department of Correction's employee who has served for 25 years with at least 20 years as a correction officer is eligible to retire at 25 years.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 43	Delaware HB 43 (149)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis James Johnson	1	13	3	2017-01-18	2017-08-30	openstates	ocd-bill/8190f53e-daa5-41d6-9927-1b14688b8bd3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25402	ae41cd49dda3466c0a87f1d81289314648d60bc72a6b65355e843ea184280ae3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 43 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PENSIONS.

This bill clarifies that a Department of Correction's employee who has served for 25 years with at least 20 years as a correction officer is eligible to retire at 25 years.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• James Johnson — primary (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-18 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 Tabled in Committee
• 2017-03-22 Amendment HA 1 to HB 43 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-22 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 43 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-23 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-03-28 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-26 Amendment SA 1 to HB 43 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-26 Amendment SA 1 to HB 43 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-04-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-09 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-08-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8190f53e-daa5-41d6-9927-1b14688b8bd3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).