republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-198.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.	This bill would increase the maximum weekly benefit amount that would be payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Division of Unemployment Insurance from $330 a week to $400 a week. The funds necessary to pay the increased weekly benefit amounts would be paid from the Unemployment Trust Fund. This bill would also freeze the taxable wage base used by employers to determine what portion of employee’s wages are subject to unemployment insurance tax assessments, for the period July 1, 2019 to October 29, 2020, to allow the Division of Unemployment Insurance and the Unemployment Compensation Advisory Council to analyze whether to revise the taxable wage base formula into the future.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 198	Delaware HB 198 (150)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh Trey Paradee	1	9	2	2019-06-10	2019-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/a97b55d0-7f81-4653-82f5-9daf62abe15a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47638	ce2016f5b85b8d899e5119ca094bab3a475df9da0a894b579e21b93a83bb0288	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 198 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.

This bill would increase the maximum weekly benefit amount that would be payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Division of Unemployment Insurance from $330 a week to $400 a week. The funds necessary to pay the increased weekly benefit amounts would be paid from the Unemployment Trust Fund. This bill would also freeze the taxable wage base used by employers to determine what portion of employee’s wages are subject to unemployment insurance tax assessments, for the period July 1, 2019 to October 29, 2020, to allow the Division of Unemployment Insurance and the Unemployment Compensation Advisory Council to analyze whether to revise the taxable wage base formula into the future.

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 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• 3/5 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-10 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-14 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 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/a97b55d0-7f81-4653-82f5-9daf62abe15a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).