republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-191.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL JURISDICTION.	This Act increases the civil jurisdictional limit for the Court of Common Pleas from $50,000 to $75,000, as recommended by the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 191	Delaware HB 191 (150)	bill		enacted	Krista Griffith Stephanie L. Hansen	1	7	2	2019-06-07	2019-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/3fb957e1-c74b-42c2-8a9e-121f321c990a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47623	346c1594c62058b350b2a323c088ecbdddfa9129cf62565eb5e99b03ff14685f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 191 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL JURISDICTION.

This Act increases the civil jurisdictional limit for the Court of Common Pleas from $50,000 to $75,000, as recommended by the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-07 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-18 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-18 Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2019-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2019-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3fb957e1-c74b-42c2-8a9e-121f321c990a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).