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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "HB 198"
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citation: "Delaware HB 198 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Trey Paradee"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-06-10"
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last_action: "2019-06-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a97b55d0-7f81-4653-82f5-9daf62abe15a"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47638"
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source_hash: "ce2016f5b85b8d899e5119ca094bab3a475df9da0a894b579e21b93a83bb0288"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 198 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE DIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47638&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB198)
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## Votes
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- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3/5 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
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- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-06-10** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-14** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2019-06-21** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2019-06-30** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a97b55d0-7f81-4653-82f5-9daf62abe15a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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