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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RECOUPMENT OF OVERPAYMENT OF BENEFITS. This Act disqualifies an individual who obtained an overpayment of benefits through fraud from receiving future unemployment benefits until the total overpayment, penalties, and interest are repaid in full. This change does not apply to fraud overpayments established by final decision before the effective date of this Act. This Act also broadens the manner in which a notice of overpayment may be delivered and removes the 5 year deadline for filing actions to collect overpayments due to the Department. This Act takes effect 60 days after its enactment into law. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 150 HB 149 Delaware HB 149 (150)
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Sherry Dorsey Walker
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Delaware HB 149 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RECOUPMENT OF OVERPAYMENT OF BENEFITS.

This Act disqualifies an individual who obtained an overpayment of benefits through fraud from receiving future unemployment benefits until the total overpayment, penalties, and interest are repaid in full. This change does not apply to fraud overpayments established by final decision before the effective date of this Act. This Act also broadens the manner in which a notice of overpayment may be delivered and removes the 5 year deadline for filing actions to collect overpayments due to the Department. This Act takes effect 60 days after its enactment into law.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • 3/5 — 410 (pass) · lower
  • 3/5 — 210 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
  • John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
  • Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
  • Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
  • David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
  • Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
  • Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-05-09 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2019-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2019-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2019-06-21 Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2019-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
  • 2019-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2019-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60fb1e8b-a3f4-4234-a05b-544f16aab34d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).