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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PAY FOR SUCCESS CONTRACTS."
description: "This Act creates Pay for Success contracts. A Pay for Success contract is an agreement between a State agency and either a program intermediary or an investor under which an investor will provide upfront capital to fund a service, program, or economic development initiative. The State agency agrees to repay the program intermediary or investor if the service, program, or economic development initiative meets the performance measures and outcomes agreed to in the contract. An independent evaluator will determine if the performance measures and outcomes are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 242"
citation: "Delaware SB 242 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Walsh", "Kimberly Williams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-12"
last_action: "2018-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/689667bb-122e-44b0-ba55-55d0f209c861"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26807"
source_hash: "0851a0bcb3290a6d8cae548225294b881bafed28ac3cdccc10cffd7168dacf55"
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 242 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PAY FOR SUCCESS CONTRACTS.
This Act creates Pay for Success contracts. A Pay for Success contract is an agreement between a State agency and either a program intermediary or an investor under which an investor will provide upfront capital to fund a service, program, or economic development initiative. The State agency agrees to repay the program intermediary or investor if the service, program, or economic development initiative meets the performance measures and outcomes agreed to in the contract. An independent evaluator will determine if the performance measures and outcomes are met.
## 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=26807&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB242)
## Votes
- SM — **391** (pass) · lower
- SM — **180** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- John Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie George Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-12** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 242 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-15** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-08-08** 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/689667bb-122e-44b0-ba55-55d0f209c861`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).