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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS TO VITAL STATISTICS RECORDS.	This Bill raises the time periods for public access to individual vital records from 72 years to 80 years after the date of birth, and from 40 years to 50 years after the date of death or marriage.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 114	Delaware HB 114 (150)	bill		enacted	David B. McBride Franklin D. Cooke	3	12	3	2019-04-04	2019-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/95a96a60-cf6e-4063-819b-39c3f05adc49	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47308	22d310e3829e81c456b6866075849c75edb015fcfb931ab60a02cf4457344fcb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 114 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS TO VITAL STATISTICS RECORDS.

This Bill raises the time periods for public access to individual vital records from 72 years to 80 years after the date of birth, and from 40 years to 50 years after the date of death or marriage.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 114 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to HB 114 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 18–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-04 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-05-07 Amendment HA 1 to HB 114 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-07 Amendment HA 1 to HB 114 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-05-07 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-05-07 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Amendment SA 1 to HB 114 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 Amendment SA 1 to HB 114 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2019-06-20 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-06-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95a96a60-cf6e-4063-819b-39c3f05adc49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).