republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-13.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 12 AND 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABANDONED OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.	This Act continues the reforms enacted over the past 4 years by restructuring Chapter 11 of Title 12, and adopting in substance many provisions from the 2016 Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission. In addition, this Act adopts certain recommendations from the Delaware Unclaimed Property Task Force formed under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 59 of the 147th General Assembly, and makes significant changes to the State’s unclaimed property law to bring greater predictability, efficiency, and fairness to the State's unclaimed property reporting process and compliance initiatives.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 13	Delaware SB 13 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Bryon H. Short	1	9	2	2017-01-12	2017-02-02	openstates	ocd-bill/89060024-02d1-4094-9614-bcfa1c1a8273	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25389	c1b5972d6a3bc1382480916eb840e1ea292f23c20e605145e4baa82ef757aa26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 13 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 12 AND 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABANDONED OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.

This Act continues the reforms enacted over the past 4 years by restructuring Chapter 11 of Title 12, and adopting in substance many provisions from the 2016 Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission. In addition, this Act adopts certain recommendations from the Delaware Unclaimed Property Task Force formed under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 59 of the 147th General Assembly, and makes significant changes to the State’s unclaimed property law to bring greater predictability, efficiency, and fairness to the State's unclaimed property reporting process and compliance initiatives.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-12 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-18 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-01-19 Amendment SA 1 to SB 13 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-01-19 Amendment SA 1 to SB 13 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-01-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-01-24 Assigned to House Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-02-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/89060024-02d1-4094-9614-bcfa1c1a8273. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).